Refiguring techniques in digital visual research

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This book interrogates how new digital-visual techniques and technologies are being used in emergent configurations of research and intervention. It discusses technological change and technological possibility; theoretical shifts toward processual paradigms; and a respectful ethics of responsibility. The contributors explore how new and evolving digital-visual technologies and techniques have been utilized in the development of research, and reflect on how such theory and practice might advance what is “knowable” in a world of smartphones, drones, and 360-degree cameras. Read more... Abstract: This book interrogates how new digital-visual techniques and technologies are being used in emergent configurations of research and intervention. Read more... Front Matter ....Pages i-xxviii Technologies, Possibilities, Emergence and an Ethics of Responsibility: Refiguring Techniques (Sarah Pink)....Pages 1-12 Non-human Sensing: New Methodologies for the Drone Assemblage (Bradley L. Garrett, Anthony McCosker)....Pages 13-23 Immersive Reflexivity: Using 360° Cameras in Ethnographic Fieldwork (Edgar Gómez Cruz)....Pages 25-38 Empathetic Visuality: GoPros and the Video Trace (Shanti Sumartojo, Sarah Pink)....Pages 39-50 In Defence of the “Thin”: Reflections on the Intersections Between Interactive Documentaries and Ethnography (Paolo S. H. Favero)....Pages 51-65 Ethnography Through the Digital Eye: What Do We See When We Look? (Shanti Sumartojo, Adrian Dyer, Jair García, Edgar Gómez Cruz)....Pages 67-80 Visual Documentation in Hybrid Spaces: Ethics, Publics and Transition (Alison Young, Lachlan MacDowall)....Pages 81-91 At the Edges of the Visual Culture of Exile: A Glimpse from South Australia (Melinda Hinkson)....Pages 93-104 Careful Surveillance at Play: Human-Animal Relations and Mobile Media in the Home (Ingrid Richardson, Larissa Hjorth, Yolande Strengers, William Balmford)....Pages 105-116 Imagining Technique: Reflexivity, Ethnographic Arts and the Digital-Real (James Oliver)....Pages 117-129 Back Matter ....Pages 131-136