A01=Zeynep Devrim Gursel
Author_Zeynep Devrim Gursel
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digital news circulation
digital news images
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image brokerage
images from the war on terror
journalism
journalist photograph
journalistic photography
marketing photographs
media studies
news
news agencies
news brokers
news images
photographers
photography
photojournalism
press images
press photography
production of news images
selling press images
visual culture
visual impact of journalism
visual media
visual news
war on terror
Product details
- ISBN 9780520286375
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 12 Apr 2016
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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How does a photograph become a news image? An ethnography of the labor behind international news images, Image Brokers ruptures the self-evidence of the journalistic photograph by revealing the many factors determining how news audiences are shown people, events, and the world. News images, Zeynep Gursel argues, function as formative fictions - fictional insofar as these images are constructed and culturally mediated, and formative because their public presence and circulation have real consequences in the world. Set against the backdrop of the War on Terror and based on fieldwork conducted at photojournalism's centers of power, Image Brokers offers an intimate look at an industry in crisis. At the turn of the 21st century, image brokers-the people who manage the distribution and restriction of news images-found the core technologies of their craft, the status of images, and their own professional standing all changing rapidly with the digitalization of the infrastructures of representation.
From corporate sales meetings to wire service desks, newsrooms to photography workshops and festivals, Image Brokers investigates how news images are produced and how worldviews are reproduced in the process.
Zeynep Devrim Gursel is a media anthropologist and Assistant Professor of International Studies at Macalester College.
