Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-187) and index.
Note
Print version record.
Contents
Introduction: image technologies and visual culture -- The touch of the unknow -- The space of the screen -- Sights of war -- Cyberspace and the world we live in -- Consuming images: from the symbolic to the psychotic -- The city in the field of vision -- Will images move us still?
Summary
Into the Image examines visual technology sociologically and, in so doing, rejects the fashionable idea that the new visual technologies are displacing the real.