Search results for "visuality"

Visual processing in patients with age-related macular degeneration performing a face detection test

2017

Purpose: People with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) have difficulties in familiar face recognition and facial expression discrimination. Our aim was to evaluate the visual processing of faces in AMD patients and whether this would be improved by anti-vascular endothelial growth factor therapy. This was a prospective interventional cohort study. Patients: Twelve patients with monocular wet AMD and 6 control subjects were recruited. Face detection processes were studied using cortical event-related potentials (ERPs). Patients received 3 bevacizumab intravitreal injections to the single affected eye. At baseline and 4–6 weeks after the last injection, clinical presentation and ERPs of …

Schermi. Immagini, corpi, condivisioni

2019

In this book the author investigates the digital image proliferation of our times from an interdisciplinary point of view.

(Un)exhausted Cartographies. Re-living the visuality, aesthetics and politics in contemporary mapping theories and practices

This thesis is concerned with examining the life and deadliness of the map trope in contemporary Human Geography and the various ways maps and mapping have been re-theorized over the past twenty five years. Arguing that there is presently a feeling of exhaustion and disinterest amongst many human geographers in the use of maps given a shift to postmodern and poststructural approaches that decentre maps and mistrust their supposed objectivity, their representational qualities, and use by institutions to justify certain political actions, it tries to relive the attention in the ubiquity and flourishing of contemporary mapping practices by promoting a re-worked post-representational perspectiv…

Haptic Visuality and Film Narration. Mapping New Women’s Cinema in Spain

2020

There is a trend in female film production in the 21st century in the context of Spain towards a type of cinema that we could classify as haptic. It is a mode of representation concerned with multisensory expression in film images. In this article, we shall study this haptic visuality in the works of four filmmakers: Isabel Coixet, Paula Ortiz, Mar Coll and Carla Simón, whose films in this century exemplify the trend. The method chosen is textual analysis, which will provide us with the necessary tools to study matters concerning representation (framing), narration (nuclei and catalysis) and communication (spectatorial subject). These three analytical categories together will enable us to s…

Il packaging come icona culturale? Processi di significazione e meccanismi intertestuali

2020

Questo contributo si interroga sul modo in cui alcune confezioni dei prodotti possano assurgere a icone culturali in grado di condensare, e al tempo stesso trascendere e rilanciare, ampi significati di tipo socioculturale. I packaging di alcuni brand mondiali, gia da tempo, sono diventati non solo segno inconfondibile del brand di appartenenza (si pensi alla contour di Coca-Cola o al barattolo di Nutella), ma anche oggetti in grado di comunicare molto altro, che finiscono per sganciarsi dal marchio e contribuiscono a far circolare valori di consumo, abitudini di un’epoca, usi collettivi di una certa cultura. Attraverso l’analisi di alcuni casi studio, indagheremo proprio quali sono i proces…

Representation and videography in linguistic landscape studies

2017

AbstractMuch Linguistic Landscape scholarship relies on visual data collection, primarily the use of still photography; however, the field has yet to address the theoretical underpinning of such visual and spatial representation. Furthermore, digital video is currently as easy to capture and share as digital photographs were when Linguistic Landscape studies first became prominent in the early 2000s. With these two points in mind, this article first grounds the documentation and analysis of the Linguistic Landscape in a theory of visual representation; it then provides a framework for videographic methodologies drawing on recent work in the related fields of anthropology and cultural geogra…