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Availability:In StockContributor:Jill Walker RettbergPublish date:2023-11-29Pages:219
Language:EnglishPublisher:Polity PressISBN-13:9781509545223ISBN-10:1509545220UPC:9781509545223Book Category:Social Science, ComputersBook Subcategory:Media Studies, Artificial IntelligenceBook Topic:Computer Vision & Pattern RecognitionSize:8.30 x 5.70 x 1.30 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCEDXJDPVG

Humans have used technology to expand our limited vision for millennia, from the invention of the stone mirror 8,000 years ago to the latest developments in facial recognition and augmented reality. We imagine that technologies will allow us to see more, to see differently and even to see everything. But each of these new ways of seeing carries its own blind spots.

In this illuminating book, Jill Walker Rettberg examines the long history of machine vision. Providing an overview of the historical and contemporary uses of machine vision, she unpacks how technologies such as smart surveillance cameras and TikTok filters are changing the way we see the world and one another. By analysing fictional and real-world examples, including art, video games and science fiction, the book shows how machine vision can have very different cultural impacts, fostering both sympathy and community as well as anxiety and fear.

Combining ethnographic and critical media studies approaches alongside personal reflections, Machine Vision is an engaging and eye-opening read. It is suitable for students and scholars of digital media studies, science and technology studies, visual studies, digital art and science fiction, as well as for general readers interested in the impact of new technologies on society.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Polity PressISBN-13:9781509545223ISBN-10:1509545220UPC:9781509545223Book Category:Social Science, ComputersBook Subcategory:Media Studies, Artificial IntelligenceBook Topic:Computer Vision & Pattern RecognitionSize:8.30 x 5.70 x 1.30 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCEDXJDPVG
Jill Walker Rettberg is Professor of Digital Culture and Co-Director of the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen.
Publisher: Polity Press

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