Automating Vision explores the rise of seeing machines through four
case studies: facial recognition, drone vision, mobile and locative
media and driverless cars. Proposing a conceptual lens of camera
consciousness, which is drawn from the early visual anthropology of
Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead, Automating Vision accounts for the
growing power and value of camera technologies and digital image
processing.
Behind the smart camera devices examined throughout the book lies a set
of increasingly integrated and automated technologies underpinned by
artificial intelligence, machine learning and image processing. Seeing
machines are now implicated in growing visual data markets and are
supported by emerging layers of infrastructure that they coproduce. In
this book, Anthony McCosker and Rowan Wilken address the social impacts,
the disruptions and reconfigurations to existing digital media
ecosystems, to urban environments and to mobility and social relations
that result from the increasing automation of vision and explore how it
might be possible to ensure a safe and equitable future as we learn to
see with and negotiate the interventions of seeing machines.
This book will appeal to students and scholars in media, communication,
cultural studies, sociology of media and science and technology studies.
More resources for the book can be found at https:
//www.anthonymccosker.com/automating-vision.
