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The politics of wire service photography: Infrastructures of representation in a digital newsroom
dc.contributor.authorGürsel, Zeynep Devrimen_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-03-16T15:52:48Z
dc.date.available2013-04-01T14:17:24Zen_US
dc.date.issued2012-02en_US
dc.identifier.citationGürsel, Zeynep Devrim (2012). "The politics of wire service photography: Infrastructures of representation in a digital newsroom." American Ethnologist 39(1). <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/90032>en_US
dc.identifier.issn0094-0496en_US
dc.identifier.issn1548-1425en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/90032
dc.description.abstractThis 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 ]en_US
dc.publisherBlackwell Publishing Incen_US
dc.publisherWiley Periodicals, Inc.en_US
dc.titleThe politics of wire service photography: Infrastructures of representation in a digital newsroomen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.rights.robotsIndexNoFollowen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelAnthropology and Archaeologyen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciencesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumDepartment of Anthropology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
 zgursel@umich.eduen_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/90032/1/j.1548-1425.2011.01351.x.pdf
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1548-1425.2011.01351.xen_US
dc.identifier.sourceAmerican Ethnologisten_US
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