Critical Hardware: The Circuit of Image and Data

Stine, Kyle

doi:10.1086/702614

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“…We argue that photogrammetry’s historical development and present directions are of direct relevance to new media and communication scholarship. Not only are media (especially image capture and processing) technologies central to photogrammetry’s operations, but photogrammetry has many touch points with recent work within geomedia studies, critical hardware studies (Stine, 2019), new media history (e.g. Gitelman and Pingree, 2003; Grøtta, 2015) and media archaeology (Kittler, 1999; Parikka, 2012; Zielinski, 2006).…”

Section: Introduction: Photogrammetry And/as Geomediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Vertical geomediation: The automation and platformization of photogrammetry

Wilken

Thomas

2022

New Media & Society

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Photogrammetry is the science of using photographs to make measurements and derive three-dimensional (3D) data about objects or terrain from two-dimensional (2D) imaging. In this article we view photogrammetry through the lens of geomedia studies, arguing two things. First, we suggest the accumulation and concentration of photogrammetric capabilities, technologies and knowledge, from the First World War onwards can be understood as both part of the 20th-century creation of a ‘government machine’, and a crucial element within the longer-run ‘cartographic project’. Through both world wars and the post-war period, aerial photogrammetry emerged as a fundamental capability for government-supported geomedia infrastructure and spatial information capture – what we term an extended geomedia infosphere. Second, we examine the critical dynamics of digitization, automation and platformization. These developments, we argue, have led to a redistribution of photogrammetric capabilities and technologies outside governmental cartography, with implications for platforms and geomedia studies.

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Section: Introduction: Photogrammetry And/as Geomediamentioning

confidence: 99%