1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792544503321

Titolo

Image operations : visual media and political conflict / / edited by Jens Eder, Charlotte Klonk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, Michigan : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-5261-2098-4

1-5261-0864-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)

Disciplina

302.23

Soggetti

Mass media - Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Images of the world, images of conflect / Ben O'Loughlin -- Worldmaking frame by frame / Zeynep Devrim Gursel -- Working images: Harun Farocki and the operational image / Volker Pantenburg -- Affective image operations / Jens Eder -- Method, madness and montage: assemblages of images and the production of knowledge / W.J.T. Mitchell -- Image operations: refracting control from virtual reality to the digital battlefield / Timothy Lenoir and Luke Caldwell -- Sensorship: the seen of drone warfare / Tom Holert -- Images that last? Iraq videos from YouTube to WikiLeaks / Christian Christensen -- Images of terror / Charlotte Klonk -- The making and gendering of a martyr: images of female suicide bombers in the Middle East / Verena Straub -- Photographic archives and archival entities / Ariella Azoulay -- Exposing the invisible: visual investigation and conflict / Stephanie Hankey and Marek Tuszynski -- Human rights in an age of distant witnesses: remixed lives, reincarnated images and live-streamed co-presence / Sam Gregory -- The hunger striker: a case for embodied visuality / Bishnupriya Ghosh -- The visual commons: counter-power in photography from slavery to Occupy Wall Street / Nicholas Mirzoeff.

Sommario/riassunto

Still and moving images are crucial factors in contemporary political conflicts. They not only have representational, expressive or illustrative functions, but also augment and create significant events. Beyond



altering states of mind, they affect bodies and often life or death is at stake. Various forms of image operations are currently performed in the contexts of war, insurgency and activism. Photographs, videos, interactive simulations and other kinds of images steer drones to their targets, train soldiers, terrorise the public, celebrate protest icons, uncover injustices, or call for help. They are often parts of complex agential networks and move across different media and cultural environments. This book is a pioneering interdisciplinary study of the role and function of images in political life.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786489503321

Titolo

Children and cross-examination : time to change the rules? / edited by John R. Spencer and Michael E. Lamb

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; Portland, Oregon, : Hart Publishing, 2012

ISBN

1-84731-956-4

1-4725-6605-X

1-283-73954-2

1-84731-955-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (315 p.)

Disciplina

347.41066083

Soggetti

Child witnesses - Great Britain

Child witnesses

Cross-examination - Great Britain

Cross-examination

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes the Pigot Report (Report of the Advisory Group on Video Evidence, 1989) --pages [4] of Cover

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / J.R. Spencer -- 'Kicking and screaming' : the slow road to best evidence / Joyce Plotnikoff and Richard Woolfson -- Alternative routes : accusatorial jurisdictions on the slow road to best evidence / Emily Henderson -- Children's evidence in legal proceedings : the position in Western Australia / Hal Jackson -- Cross-examining the



child complainant : rights, innovations and unfounded fears in the Australian context / Annie Cossins -- An idea whose time has come : the reform of criminal procedure for child witnesses in New Zealand / Emily Henderson -- Child witnesses in Austria / Verena Murschetz -- The position in Norway / Trond Myklebust -- Conclusions / J.R. Spencer -- The Pigot Report 1989 (reprinted)

1. Introduction -- JR Spencer -- 2. 'Kicking and Screaming'-the Slow Road to Best Evidence -- Joyce Plotnikoff and Richard Woolfson -- 3. Alternative Routes: Accusatorial Jurisdictions on the Slow Road to Best Evidence -- Emily Henderson -- 4. Children's Evidence in Legal Proceedings-the Position in Western Australia -- Hal Jackson -- 5. Cross-Examining the Child Complainant: Rights, Innovations and Unfounded Fears in the Australian Context -- Annie Cossins -- 6. An Idea Whose Time has Come: The Reform of Criminal Procedure for Child Witnesses in New Zealand -- Emily Henderson -- 7. Child Witnesses in Austria -- Verena Murschetz -- 8. The Position in Norway -- Trond Myklebust -- 9. Conclusions -- JR Spencer -- 10. The Pigot Report 1989 (reprinted)

Sommario/riassunto

In 2009, Stephen Barker was convicted of rape on the evidence of a little girl who was four-and-a-half years old at the trial, and about three-and-a-half when first interviewed by the police. The high point of the proceedings was the child's appearance as a live witness in order for Barker's counsel to attempt a cross-examination. This case focused attention on the need, imposed by current English law, for even tiny children to come to court for a live cross-examination. In 1989, the Pigot Committee proposed a scheme under which the whole of a young child's evidence, including cross-examination, would be obtained out of court and in advance of trial. In 1999 a provision designed to give effect to this was included in the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act, but it has not yet been brought into force. The full Pigot proposal was implemented, however, in Western Australia, and similar schemes operate in a number of European jurisdictions. This book of essays examines a number of these schemes, and argues the case for further reforms in the UK