Lenart J. Kučić
Lenart J. Kučić is a journalist, lecturer and researcher of mass media. For 10 years, he covered the intersection of media, technology and society for Delo newspaper Saturday supplement. Last year he joined the media for investigative journalism Pod črto (The Bottom Line). He is also the founder of the Marsowci podcasting network and co-author of several research and expert articles on media ownership.
Photos of pets on social media show that a photograph in digital economy is never only a digitalized version of what was once an analogue photographic image.
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Photos of pets on social media show that a photograph in digital economy is never only a digitalized version of what was once an analogue photographic image.
Photography has traditionally been a symbiosis between a human and a machine. Now it is also a symbiosis between a non-human and a machine.
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Optical and mechanical tools were the first major “augmentation” of human senses. The microscope approached the worlds that were too small for the optical performance of the eye. The telescope touched the too far-off space; X-rays radiated the inaccessible interior of the body. Such augmentations were not innocent, as they demanded a different interpretation of the world, which would correspond to images of infinitely small, remote or hidden. Similar augmentation is now happening with cloud computing, machine vision and artificial intelligence. With these tools, it may be possible to compile and analyze billions of digital images created daily by people and machines. But who will analyze these images and for what purpose? Will they help us to better understand society and learn from past mistakes? Or have they already been hijacked by attention-merchants and political demagogues who are effectively spreading old ideologies with new communication technologies?
- Keywords: augmented photography, communication technologies, machine learning, machine vision, reality
Camouflage was and remains a shield as much as a weapon in this fight.
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Camouflage was and remains a shield as much as a weapon in this fight.