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Abstract: The networked image is a slice of network production that is emblematic of the current image economy. As a hub within a techno-social infrastructure it manages the network as a directive tool. This is a result of its existence within a production protocol that is programmed by technologies such as web applications, digital cameras and smartphone apps. Since networked images are part of a specific software, they are marked by software properties and transformed into organisational forms. Image management discusses a move from images as representation, to the application of images as productive networked objects.
It is about the role of the image as mediator between technological and social protocols.
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New Media Networked Images Related Papers Abstract: This paper shows the most outstanding clues of the last iconic revolution on the Internet. The quantity and the quickness of image re-production on the digital net is amazing but the web is far more important as a communication arena and as an opportunity to show up authors’ and amateurs’ works. The web allows everybody to approach the world through its digital copy and to upload, download or modify iconic contents. So during a potential never-ending process the image can have multiple, sometimes unknown, authors. The web-people can find on the web opportunities to create a new digital citizenship and to gather around a parallel word of icons which can have a prospective endless life as traces on the net.
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Abstract: Image establishes how an entity is perceived and affects how audiences interact with it. Communication design assumes a particular responsibility in building this image as it intervenes in setting the interface between people and things, thus determining the way their relationship is established. This relationship, which has progressively changed in light of technological developments, is now subject to new dynamics, mostly of an economic nature, whose evolution and effects are difficult to anticipate. The challenges for project practice stem from the need to integrate current concerns – creating value, promoting inclusiveness, ensuring sustainability – in a digital world, subordinate to the global network and the attributes it supports – permanent interaction, disintermediation, remediation. An effective strategy for image building implies understanding the ongoing process of dematerialization and the situations that change accordingly; it also entails adapting to the dynamics of virtual media, the exploitation of new media synergies and taking advantage of creative information and communication technologies.
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Abstract: Twenty-two years since the arrival of the first consumer digital camera, Western culture is now characterized by ubiquitous photography. The disappearance of the camera inside the
mobile phone has ensured that even the most banal moments of the day can become a point of photographic reverie, potentially shared instantly. Supported by the increased affordability of computers, digital storage and access to broadband, consumers are provided with new opportunities for the capture and transmission of images, particularly online where snapshot photography is being transformed from an individual to a communal activity. As the digital image proliferates online and becomes increasingly delivered via networks, numerous practices emerge surrounding the image’s transmission, encoding, ordering and reception.
Informing these practices is a growing cultural shift towards a conception of the Internet as a platform for sharing and collaboration, supported by a mosaic of technologies termed Web 2.0. In this article we attempt to delineate the field of snapshot photography as this practice shifts from primarily being a print-oriented to a transmission-oriented, screen-based
experience. We observe how the alignment of the snapshot with the Internet results in the emergence of new photographies in which the photographic image interacts with established and experimental media forms – raising questions about the ways in which digital photography is framed institutionally and theoretically.
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