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Automating Vision explores the rise of seeing machines through four case studies: facial recognition, drone vision, mobile and locative media and driverless cars. Proposing a conceptual lens of camera consciousness, which is drawn from the early visual anthropology of Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead, Automating Vision accounts for the growing power and value of camera technologies and digital image processing.
Behind the smart camera devices examined throughout the book lies a set of increasingly integrated and automated technologies underpinned by artificial intelligence, machine learning and image processing. Seeing machines are now implicated in growing visual data markets and are supported by emerging layers of infrastructure that they coproduce. In this book, Anthony McCosker and Rowan Wilken address the social impacts, the disruptions and reconfigurations to existing digital media ecosystems, to urban environments and to mobility and social relations that result from the increasing automation of vision and explore how it might be possible to ensure a safe and equitable future as we learn to see with and negotiate the interventions of seeing machines.
This book will appeal to students and scholars in media, communication, cultural studies, sociology of media and science and technology studies.
More resources for the book can be found at https://www.anthonymccosker.com/automating-vision.
Show moreAutomating Vision explores the rise of seeing machines through four case studies: facial recognition, drone vision, mobile and locative media and driverless cars. Proposing a conceptual lens of camera consciousness, which is drawn from the early visual anthropology of Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead, Automating Vision accounts for the growing power and value of camera technologies and digital image processing.
Behind the smart camera devices examined throughout the book lies a set of increasingly integrated and automated technologies underpinned by artificial intelligence, machine learning and image processing. Seeing machines are now implicated in growing visual data markets and are supported by emerging layers of infrastructure that they coproduce. In this book, Anthony McCosker and Rowan Wilken address the social impacts, the disruptions and reconfigurations to existing digital media ecosystems, to urban environments and to mobility and social relations that result from the increasing automation of vision and explore how it might be possible to ensure a safe and equitable future as we learn to see with and negotiate the interventions of seeing machines.
This book will appeal to students and scholars in media, communication, cultural studies, sociology of media and science and technology studies.
More resources for the book can be found at https://www.anthonymccosker.com/automating-vision.
Show moreAnthony McCosker is an Associate Professor in Media and Communication and Deputy Director of the Social Innovation Research Institute, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.
Rowan Wilken is an Associate Professor in Media and Communication and Principal Research Fellow in the Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC), RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
"The authors provide an invaluable guidebook to an emerging and at
times uncanny technological landscape whose unblinking, opaque, and
distributed gaze stares back at us from a growing array of devices
that promise to sort, recognize, and evaluate us. Automating Vision
is a crucial contribution to the new forms of visual literacy we
must cultivate if we are to reap the benefits of the burgeoning
field of machine vision while evading its pitfalls. It is an
elegantly written, theoretically sophisticated book that is
destined to become a touchstone work for our times."Mark
Andrejevic, Monash University. Author of Automated Media.
"Snapshots are automated, vision becomes machinic, cars sense more
than the driver, and seeing is more like data analysis; it’s in
this field of transformations of media that Automating Vision
offers an excellent analysis of the social aspects of artificial
intelligence. Warmly recommended across the multiple contemporary
disciplines that have to make sense of this situation but also to
develop a fresh approach to media literacy."Professor Jussi
Parikka, University of Southampton and FAMU, Prague"This timely
volume offers a rich discussion of the social impact of smart
cameras across a range of domains, ranging from surveillance and
facial recognition to drones and self-driving cars. The central
term "camera consciousness" grounds the productive analysis of the
social interactions around and with new visual technologies. This
book will be a key reference for scholars interested in the social
aspects of algorithmic visual technologies."Jill Walker Rettberg,
Author, Professor and Leader of the Digital Culture Research Group
at the University of Bergen, Norway
"The authors provide an invaluable guidebook to an emerging and at
times uncanny technological landscape whose unblinking, opaque, and
distributed gaze stares back at us from a growing array of devices
that promise to sort, recognize, and evaluate us. Automating Vision
is a crucial contribution to the new forms of visual literacy we
must cultivate if we are to reap the benefits of the burgeoning
field of machine vision while evading its pitfalls. It is an
elegantly written, theoretically sophisticated book that is
destined to become a touchstone work for our times."Mark
Andrejevic, Monash University, Australia. Author of Automated
Media. "Snapshots are automated, vision becomes machinic, cars
sense more than the driver, and seeing is more like data analysis;
it’s in this field of transformations of media that Automating
Vision offers an excellent analysis of the social aspects of
artificial intelligence. Warmly recommended across the multiple
contemporary disciplines that have to make sense of this situation
but also to develop a fresh approach to media literacy."Professor
Jussi Parikka, University of Southampton, UK, and FAMU, Prague,
Czech Republic
"This timely volume offers a rich discussion of the social impact
of smart cameras across a range of domains, ranging from
surveillance and facial recognition to drones and self-driving
cars. The central term 'camera consciousness' grounds the
productive analysis of the social interactions around and with new
visual technologies. This book will be a key reference for scholars
interested in the social aspects of algorithmic visual
technologies."Jill Walker Rettberg, Author, Professor and Leader of
the Digital Culture Research Group at the University of Bergen,
Norway
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