Online Weak and Poor Images: On Contemporary Feminist Visual Politics

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-photography-off-the-scale.html" target="_blank" >https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-photography-off-the-scale.html</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Online Weak and Poor Images: On Contemporary Feminist Visual Politics
Original language description
This chapter uses the example of the Instagram account of Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez as a point of departure to elaborate on feminist visual politics that makes a breakdown of technology and human bodies its message and its medium. The aim is to understand the power of encounter between Ocasio-Cortez and her mostly anonymous Instagram followers against the conditions of algorithmic manipulation and explain why the imperfect and amateur visuality of Ocasio-Cortez’s Instagram stream should be considered as an example of the way in which the algorithmic, mass image can become a meaningful, political image. Finding power in figures of weakness, the chapter draws from works by feminist artists and theorists, who place the breakability of both the human body and technology on center stage. It is also to show how the history of resistance of the oppressed can play a significant role in finding ways to navigate the ambiguous landscape of online platforms.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GX19-26865X" target="_blank" >GX19-26865X: Operational Images and Visual Culture: Media Archaeological Investigations</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Photography Off the Scale: Technologies and Theories of the Mass Image
ISBN
9781474478816
Number of pages of the result
14
Pages from-to
97-110
Number of pages of the book
312
Publisher name
Edinburgh University Press
Place of publication
Edinburgh
UT code for WoS chapter
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