Practices of looking : an introduction to visual culture / Marita Sturken, Lisa Cartwright.

Previous edition 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Images, power, and politics -- Representation -- Vision and visuality -- The myth of photographic truth -- Semiotics and signs -- Images and ideology -- Image icons -- Viewers make meaning -- Producers' intended meanings -- Aesthetics and taste -- Value, collecting and institutional critique -- Reading images as ideological subjects -- Viewing strategies -- Appropriation and reappropriation -- Modernity: spectatorship, the gaze, and power -- Modernity -- Modernism -- The concept of the modern subject -- Spectatorship and the gaze -- Power and the surveillance gaze -- The other -- Gender and the gaze -- Gaming and the gaze -- Realism and perspective: from Renaissance painting to digital media : Types of realism -- Perspective -- Perspective and the body -- The camera obscura -- Challenges to perspective -- Perspective in digital media -- Visual technologies, reproduction, and the copy : Visualization and technology -- Visual technologies -- The reproduced image and the copy -- Walter Benjamin and mechanical reproduction -- The politics of reproducibility -- Ownership and copyright -- Reproduction and the digital image -- 3D reproduction and simulation -- Media in everyday life : The media, singular and plural -- Everyday life -- Mass culture and mass media -- Critiques of mass culture -- Media infrastructures -- Media as nation and public sphere -- Democracy and citizen journalism -- Global media events -- Brand culture: the images and spaces of consumption : Brands as image, symbol, and icon -- The spaces of modern consumerism -- Brand ideologies -- Commodity fetishism and the rise of the knowing consumer -- Social awareness and the selling of humanitarianism -- Social media, consumer data, and the changing spaces of consumption -- DIY culture, the share economy, and new entrepreneurism -- Postmodernism: irony, parody, and pastiche : Postmodernity{postmodernism -- Simulation and the politics of postmodernity -- Reflexivity and distanced knowing -- Jaded knowing and irony -- Remix and parody -- Pastiche -- Postmodern space, architecture, and design -- Scientific looking, looking at science : Opening up the body to the empirical medical gaze -- Medicine as spectacle: the anatomical and surgical theatre -- Evidence, classification, and identification -- Bodily interiors and biomedical personhood -- The genetic and digital body -- Visualizing pharmaceuticals and science activism -- The global flow of visual culture : The history of global image reproduction -- Concepts of globalization -- The world image -- Global television -- The global flow of film -- Social movements, indigenous media, and visual activism -- The global museum and contests of culture -- Refugees and borders.

"Practices of Looking, Third Edition, bridges visual, communication, media, and cultural studies to investigate how images and the activity of looking carry meaning within and between different arenas in everyday life. The third edition has been updated to represent the contemporary visual cultural landscape and includes topics like the increasingly rapid global circulation of media, the rise of design and DIY cultures, digital media art and activism, and challenges to photojournalism and news media."--Publisher's website.