From Magic Lantern Slide to Digital Image: Visual Communities and American Culture

From: The Journal of American Culture | Date: March 1, 2008| Author: Sperling, Joy | Copyright information

Contemporary American culture is intensely visual. We transact with our visual culture in complex, participatory, sometimes disorienting ways; our boundaries of identity, place, time, and subjectivity seem to be constantly shifting. We drift variously between the sensations of observation and of surveillance, both pleasurable and uncomfortable, and between consuming and being visually consumed. Our interface with visual culture occurs in both real and virtual spaces, in which there are a vari...

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