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Kind of Blue: Social Media Photography and Emotion

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dc.creatorHenning, Michelle
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-01T11:39:00Z
dc.date.available2024-03-01T11:39:00Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThis paper considers emotion recognition and sentiment analysis in relation to social media photographs. It addresses this as part of a larger regime of surveillance and control, in which photographs are treated as symptoms for a diagnosis, and are quantified as data. Auto- mated emotion recognition approaches are capable in principle of analysing the visual qualities of social photos insofar as these can be measured and represented numerically. In reducing the photograph to data, they select out features of the image, as a means to explain or describe a mental state that lies behind or beyond the image. To treat photographs as emotionally expressive goes against the historical idea of the photograph as objective recording. Originally, the idea that pho- tographs could move their viewers was linked to the sense of photog- raphy as detached documentation. Today, more and more people take and share photographs as part of a larger shift in emotional culture, which places a therapeutic sense of self at the heart of economy and governance. Yet while people use mobile phone photos as a means of expressive documentation and self-representation, emotion recogni- tion relies on a behaviourist and positivist model that is indifferent to their intentions and to culture, and which is premised on a myth of total knowledge.en
dc.identifier.doi10.14361/dcs-2021-070203
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/21872
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.14361/dcs-2021-070203/html
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/23212
dc.languageeng
dc.publishertranscript
dc.publisher.placeBielefeld
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2364-2114
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDigital Culture & Society
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectPhotographyen
dc.subjectSocial Mediaen
dc.subjectEmotion Recognitionen
dc.subjectBehaviorismen
dc.subjectEmotional Capitalismen
dc.subject.ddcddc:700
dc.subject.ddcddc:300
dc.titleKind of Blue: Social Media Photography and Emotionen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticle
local.coverpage2024-03-02T02:37:49
local.source.epage54
local.source.issue2
local.source.issueTitleNetworked Images in Surveillance Capitalism
local.source.spage29
local.source.volume7

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