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Distant Viewing. Computational Exploration of Digital Images

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dc.creatorArnold, Taylor
dc.creatorTilton, Lauren
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-12T12:33:02Z
dc.date.available2024-02-12T12:33:02Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractA new theory and methodology for the application of computer vision methods to the computational analysis of collected, digitized visual materials, called “distant viewing.” Distant Viewing: Computational Exploration of Digital Images presents a new theory and methodology for the computational analysis of digital images, offering a lively, constructive critique of computer vision that you can actually use. What does it mean to say that computer vision “understands” visual inputs? Annotations never capture a whole image. The way digital images convey information requires what researchers Taylor Arnold and Lauren Tilton call “distant viewing”—a play on the well-known term “distant reading” from computational literary analysis. Recognizing computer vision's limitations, Arnold and Tilton's spirited examination makes the technical exciting by applying distant viewing to the sitcoms Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie, movie posters and other popular forms of advertising, and Dorothea Lange's photography. In the tradition of visual culture studies and computer vision, Distant Viewing's interdisciplinary perspective encompasses film and media studies, visual semiotics, and the sciences to create a playful, accessible guide for an international audience working in digital humanities, data science, media studies, and visual culture studies.en
dc.identifier.doi10.7551/mitpress/14046.001.0001
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/21739
dc.identifier.isbnisbn:9780262375160
dc.identifier.urihttps://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5674/Distant-ViewingComputational-Exploration-of
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/22970
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherThe MIT Press
dc.publisher.placeCambridge
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectDigital Humanitiesen
dc.subjectDigital Methoden
dc.subjectDigital Imageen
dc.subjectComputational Analysisen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.titleDistant Viewing. Computational Exploration of Digital Imagesen
dc.typebook
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeBook
local.coverpage2024-02-13T02:41:27
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/14046.001.0001

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