Six Critical Lenses on AI-Generated Images

This book offers six critical, interdisciplinary approaches to AI-generated images. It invites the reader to (re-)imagine relationships between artefacts and media, authorship and agency, creativity and commodification, representation, and visual style. Across the chapters, the book examines three r...

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Six Critical Lenses on AI-Generated Images
title Six Critical Lenses on AI-Generated Images
title_full Six Critical Lenses on AI-Generated Images
title_fullStr Six Critical Lenses on AI-Generated Images
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title_short Six Critical Lenses on AI-Generated Images
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topic Visual culture analysis
Multimodal communication
Sociotechnical systems
Philosophy of technology
Media theory
Generative AI practices
Critical approaches to AI imagery
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Critical approaches to AI imagery
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