Camera Journalism in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Pursuing Reality
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publishing:19th Jan '27
£67.99
This title is due to be published on 19th January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
This book explores the future of camera journalism in the age of artificial intelligence (AI).
It investigates the nature of camera journalism’s truths, the knowledge it produces, and how it can maintain its authority in the public sphere. Mary Angela Bock historicizes photographic epistemology, arguing that camera journalism is distinct from other forms of journalism for the way it integrates technology with embodied practice. The book explores how synthetic imagery from generative AI stands to erode, if not eradicate, the public’s trust in photographic images, ultimately threatening the informed discourse essential to democracy. How can camera journalism reinvent itself in the face of such a threat? Bock argues for a paradigmatic shift away from technological authority toward that of the testimonies of human witnessing.
Camera Journalism in the Age of Artificial Intelligence is essential reading for visual communication scholars, theorists, and graduate students.
“An impassioned argument to rethink ‘camera journalism’ as an engaged, embodied practice in this era of media skepticism and photorealistic AI imagery.”
Fred Ritchin, Dean Emeritus of the International Center of Photography (ICP) School, former picture editor of the New York Times Magazine, and former professor of Photography and Imaging at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts
"Camera Journalism in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Pursuing Reality provides exactly what is needed at this time: a rigorous, thoughtful, and practical engagement with the challenge that AI presents to photography, journalism, and democracy. This book provides arguments, insights, and guidelines for scholars, students, media professionals, and concerned citizens."
Robert Hariman, Northwestern University, USA.
"Camera Journalism in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Pursuing Reality offers a timely and compelling exploration of visual truth and journalistic authority in the age of artificial intelligence. With insight and humanity, Bock makes a powerful case for ethical witnessing and centres the people behind the camera in journalism’s future."
Shahira S. Fahmy, The American University in Cairo, Egypt and ICA Fellow and Chair, Visual Communication Studies Division, International Communication Association.
"How is AI changing what it means to create a news image? In Camera Journalism in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Pursuing Reality, Mary Angela Bock expertly answers this question by delving into deeper issues of how news images have come to have epistemic power over how we understand the world and why camera journalists still continue to matter."
Matt Carlson, Ph.D.Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota, USA.
At a moment when artificial intelligence has destabilized the evidentiary authority of the image, Mary Angela Bock offers a timely and compelling rethinking of visual journalism. Pursuing Reality moves beyond technological fixes to recover the human witness behind the camera, making a powerful case for embodiment, ethics, and democratic responsibility — a must read in visual journalism studies.
Erik P. Bucy, Marshall and Sharleen Formby Regents Professor in Strategic Communication, Texas Tech University
ISBN: 9781041211785
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154 pages