Automating Vision: The Social Impact of the New Camera Consciousness

by Rowan Wilken and Anthony McCosker

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367356775
• ISBN13: 9780367356774
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"