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Volume 11, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 1757-2681
  • E-ISSN: 1757-269X

Abstract

In the last decade following the technological and commercial advances in digital image production and in artificial intelligence, human vision-centred understanding of visuality has changed profoundly. Machine vision technologies (MVTs) are used across a wide spectrum of activities ranging from surveillance to medical diagnosis, to adaptive visual filters on social media. This commentary calls for a rethinking of visuality that takes both technological advances and lessons learned from cultural studies into consideration.

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  • Article Type: Commentary
Keyword(s): algorithmic bias; coded gaze; data-image; machine vision; MVTs; visual culture
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