ABSTRACT

This volume addresses the evolution of the visual in digital communities, offering a multidisciplinary discussion of the ways in which images are circulated in digital communities, the meanings that are attached to them and the implications they have for notions of identity, memory, gender, cultural belonging and political action. Contributors focus on the political efficacy of the image in digital communities, as well as the representation of the digital self in order to offer a fresh perspective on the role of digital images in the creation and promotion of new forms of resistance, agency and identity within visual cultures.

chapter |11 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|13 pages

Camera Phones and Mobile Intimacies

chapter 2|14 pages

Creepshots and Power

Covert Sexualised Photography, Online Communities and the Maintenance of Gender Inequality

chapter 3|10 pages

Interview with Rasha Kahil

May 5th, 2017

chapter 4|11 pages

Imagening Discontent

Political Images and Civic Protest

chapter 5|14 pages

Mobile Places and the ‘Cyborg Body’

Feminine Embodied Net-community of #CzarnyProtest/#blackprotest

chapter 6|13 pages

Appearance Unbound

Articulations of Co-Presence in #BlackLivesMatter

chapter 8|13 pages

Posthuman Photography