Introduction: hyper-visuality: images in the era of social platforms, digital archives and computational economies

• Published in: Visual communication (London, England) Vol. 23; no. 3; pp. 405 - 425
• Main Authors: D’Armenio, Enzo, Dondero, Maria Giulia
• Format: Journal Article Web Resource
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.08.2024; SAGE Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Art & art history; Art & histoire de l’art; Arts & humanities; Arts & sciences humaines; Communication; computational; digital; Languages & linguistics; Langues & linguistique; semiotics; social network; Visual Arts and Performing Arts; digital; social network; images; semiotics; computational

Images are today at the centre of multiple social and technological tensions as a consequence of the adoption of digital coding, of the massive diffusion of social networks and of the algorithmic processing to which they are subject, resulting in new opportunities for developing analytical inquiries...