Reframing the Visualizing Cultures Controversy
Let's Talk about the Digital Medium
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12423904 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wang Jing (0000-0001-6545-6859, corresponding author), Jing Wang (0000-0002-7594-8539) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 167-174 |
| Publication date | 2015-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | positions asia critique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1067-9847 • E-ISSN: 1527-8271 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/10679847-2870558 |
| OpenAlex | W2142034362 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 1 |
This think piece returns the MIT controversy to an analytical frame that was largely ignored in 2006—the digital. Online reading habits have changed the ways of how we navigate the Web. Surfing through hyperlinks gave rise to decontextualization and the decoupling of images from their explanatory texts. The MIT controversy opened our eyes not only to the destabilizing effect of knowledge production in the digital era but also the perils of participatory culture online. The 2006 debate also drove home the crisis about online publishing: materials published online are never going to be completely acceptable to a “global audience” who straddles across diverse ethnic, cultural, religious, national, and ideological borders. Running through this piece is a complementary theme—the “racialization of point of view”—which further tied the participants of this controversy to a polarizing, dichotomous positioning of “us” versus “them” and “Free America” versus “Red China,” from which an internationalist position was difficult to emerge
Citizen journalism · Cognitive reframing · Hypertext · Ideology · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Racialization · Sociology · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2022 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |