Speculative technologies make users active co-producers of images, not passive consumers.
Evidence
My use of the term speculative technologies, then, intends to account for the dramatic growth of commodified digital, algorithmic, and computational technologies that has taken place throughout the first two decades of the twenty-first century, most notably technologies that feed on images. … One important implication of this perspective is that I am interested in a more agentic account of speculative technologies, such that users are not passive consumers (or interpreters) of images but active participants in their production and circulation as a means of connection. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 174
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines ‘speculative technologies’ as image-feeding digital technologies where users actively co-produce images.
- XREF: connects to: Grainy low-tech webcams assert that people, not technology, make the network — Theresa M. Senft, Camgirls: Celebrity and Community in…, 304; Speculative technologies are image-feeding digital tools where users actively produce images. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 174; Social media users actively produce images rather than passively consuming them — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 272
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Grainy low-tech webcams assert that people, not technology, make the network — Theresa M. Senft, Camgirls: Celebrity and Community in…, 304; Speculative technologies are image-feeding digital tools where users actively produce images. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 174; Social media users actively produce images rather than passively consuming them — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 272
Broader Connections
- Speculative technologies are image-feeding digital tools where users actively produce images.
#expands(0.93) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 174