Unintended - and Anti-Social - Consequences of Social Media Use - 1 views
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Keith Feldman on 06 Mar 14Incisive analysis of the relationship between the materiality of new media and the violence of racial capitalism.
New media technologies have given us unprecedented power to simulate, fabricate, and falsify, while casting doubt on any notion of objectively recording or documenting actual life. Why, then, is the present moment a time of unprecedented vigor and excitement among documentary-makers? Rey Chow, a renowned scholar of Asian-American film and literature, uses this question as her point of departure to discuss some new forms of documentary realism.
