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Where truth lies : digital culture and documentary media after 9/11 /

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This boldly original book traces the evolution of documentary film and photography as they migrated onto digital platforms during the first decades of the twenty-first century. Kris Fallon brings together the emergence of several key media forms, social networking and crowdsourcing, video games and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fallon, Kris, 1976- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Digital media > Political aspects > United States > 21st century.
Documentary mass media > United States > 21st century.
Mass media > Objectivity > United States > 21st century.
Online social networks > Political aspects > 21st century.
Table of Contents:
  • Seeing in the dark
  • "We see what we want to believe" : archival logic and database aesthetics in the war films of Errol Morris
  • Networked audiences : moveon.org and brave new films
  • "States of exception" : the paradox of virtual documentary representation
  • Technology, transparency and the digital presidency
  • Post-truth politics : conspiracy media and the specter of "fake news."