Simon Rothöhler
Author
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
In der kriminaltechnischen Praxis beginnt Forensik materialiter und lokal: mit Spuren am Ereignisort einer Tat. Medien der Forensik operieren als Tatortmedien und formieren Medientatorte. Sie prozessieren Datenspuren und Spurmedialitäten. In digitalen Medienkulturen ist - im Off offizieller Forensik - eine Konjunktur medienforensischer Semantiken, Verfahren, Praktiken zu beobachten, denen Simon Rothöhler nachgeht: in Alltags- und Popkultur (True...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Digital images have been under suspicion of manipulation not just since the discussions about "deepfakes" and generative AI. While in the 1990s any digital image evidence seemed questionable, pragmatic answers have since prevailed. Whether and how digital images have actually been manipulated can in many cases be proven by using methods of image analysis and comparative data evaluation. Such practices of image forensics are the focus of this volume....
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Von der Entstehung technischer Analogmedien im 19. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart digitaler Medienpraktiken hinein ist eine Vielzahl dokumentarischer Formen entstanden. Im Zentrum dieses Bandes steht die Frage nach den Operationen, die im Rahmen unterschiedlicher Institutionen und Praktiken auf je spezifische Weise bild-, text- und tonmediale Elemente arrangieren, um so die Lesbarkeit, den Aussagewert und die Machtwirkungen des Dokumentierten zu...
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Technical censorship of pictures is omnipresent and invisible at the same time. Content moderation on social media and automatic deletions by algorithms have given rise to a new union of human and non-human protagonists. While traditional institutions of censorship regulated the impact of dangerous pictures based on legal and religious norms, automated mechanisms controlled by international corporations do so today. In the public sphere of technical...
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
In contemporary society, digital images have become increasingly mobile. They are networked, shared on social media, and circulated across small and portable screens. Accordingly, the discourses of spreadability and circulation have come to supersede the focus on production, indexicality, and manipulability, which had dominated early conceptions of digital photography and film. However, the mobility of images is neither technologically nor conceptually...