TY - JOUR
T1 - The politics of wire service photography
T2 - Infrastructures of representation in a digital newsroom
AU - Gürsel, Zeynep Devrim
PY - 2012/2
Y1 - 2012/2
N2 - This article examines the politics of image brokering in the daily rituals of a major wire service's photography division. Specifically, it investigates crises of visualization: moments when routine visualization itself is challenged due to changes in infrastructures of representation. The transition to digital transmission has changed work of image brokers-people involved in the creation, validation, packaging, and circulation of images. New image brokers and changed infrastructures of representation challenge established hierarchies and who provides and polices news images. At a moment when the war on terror is also a war of images, battles over the infrastructures of representation are battles over visual worldmaking. [digital, infrastructure of representation, photography, Agence France Presse, journalism, crisis of representation, wire service, visualization, Iraq].
AB - This article examines the politics of image brokering in the daily rituals of a major wire service's photography division. Specifically, it investigates crises of visualization: moments when routine visualization itself is challenged due to changes in infrastructures of representation. The transition to digital transmission has changed work of image brokers-people involved in the creation, validation, packaging, and circulation of images. New image brokers and changed infrastructures of representation challenge established hierarchies and who provides and polices news images. At a moment when the war on terror is also a war of images, battles over the infrastructures of representation are battles over visual worldmaking. [digital, infrastructure of representation, photography, Agence France Presse, journalism, crisis of representation, wire service, visualization, Iraq].
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2011.01351.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2011.01351.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84857570633
SN - 0094-0496
VL - 39
SP - 71
EP - 89
JO - American Ethnologist
JF - American Ethnologist
IS - 1
ER -