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The Rustling Image: Videographic and Photographic Witnessing of the Syrian Revolution(Thinking Media)

The Rustling Image: Videographic and Photographic Witnessing of the Syrian Revolution(Thinking Media)


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The Rustling Image discusses the aesthetic, philosophical, and political resonances of low-resolution digital images in connection to the popular and wider use of mobile phone cameras through the case study of citizen journalists and political activists during the Syrian civil war. This book describes the witnessing techniques of low-resolution mobile phone images, focusing on the way in which citizen journalists, activists, and film collectives found alternative means by which to document the Syrian civil war during a special period in media history – that of the western media being mostly unable to obtain access to Syria. Such blurry and pixilated images, which often fail to verify what they are meant to prove, are not simply the result of technological limitations. Rather, they have been embraced as an aesthetic of resistance that seeks to distinguish itself from the clearer and sharper HD and 4K sensibility that characterizes the western hegemonic media corporations' coverage of news events. This book highlights that the role of blurry and underexposed images is to make us aware that there is a category of witnessing whose purpose is to reveal the significance of what is not visible; and to make us understand the sense of uncertainty that we feel towards our own inability to comprehend events that have been spiraling out of control in our post-truth world.

Table of Contents:
Part One: The Rustling Image 1. “Impossible to Verify” 2. Fragmentary Gestures and the Precarity of Images 3. The Immaterial Surface of Shock Videography 4. Firefly Images on the Verge of Disappearance 5. The Acoustics of Rustling Images 6. Concealed Thinking in Dark Times 7. The Fiery Surfaces of Tactile Perception Part Two: The Quotable Image 8. Night's Vigil and Darkness's Torch 9. Quotable Gestures 10. Indirect and Direct Visual Speech Acts 11. The Deletion of the Quote in Immersive Journalism Conclusion: The Ur-Image of Witnessing Index

About the Author :
Meir Wigoder is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Sapir College, Israel. He is a photography theorist, a practicing photographer, a political activist, and a writer on photojournalism and media. He has published in well-known academic journals such as Critical Inquiry, Third Text, Parallax, Public Culture, and History of Photography.


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  • ISBN-13: 9798765118634
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Thinking Media
  • ISBN-10: 8765118634
  • Publisher Date: 03 Sep 2026
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 240
  • Sub Title: Videographic and Photographic Witnessing of the Syrian Revolution


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