[ecrea] ECREA Book Series Digital Photography and Everyday Life: Empirical studies on material visual practices

It is our pleasure to announce that the new book in our ECREA Book 
Series with the title Digital Photography and Everyday Life: Empirical 
studies on material visual practices edited by Edgar Gómez Cruz and Asko 
Lehmuskallio has been published in the Routledge Studies in European 
Communication Research and Education. All ECREA second year or more 
individual members and all coordinators of institutional and associated 
members will receive a free copy of the book.

With contributors from ten different countries and backgrounds in a 
range of academic disciplines - including anthropology, media studies 
and visual culture - this collection takes a uniquely broad perspective 
on photography by situating the image-making process in wider 
discussions on the materiality and visuality of photographic practices 
and explores these through empirical case studies.

By focusing on material visual practices, the book presents a 
comprehensive overview of some of the main challenges digital 
photography is bringing to everyday life. It explores how the 
digitization of photography has a wide-reaching impact on the use of the 
medium, as well as on the kinds of images that can be produced and the 
ways in which camera technology is developed. The exploration goes 
beyond mere images to think about cameras, mediations and technologies 
as key elements in the development of visual digital cultures.

Digital Photography and Everyday Life will be of great interest to 
students and scholars of Photography, Contemporary Art, Visual Culture 
and Media Studies, as well as those studying Communication, Cultural 
Anthropology, and Science and Technology Studies.

The new addition to the ECREA Book Series was ranked first in the 
evaluation of wave 11 book proposals and as such subsidised by ECREA. 
510 copies of this book have been shipped to our second or more year 
individual members and to the coordinators of our associated and 
institutional members.

By sending a copy of this book to ECREA's core membership, the 
organisation wishes not only to express its appreciation for these 
members' continued support, but also to maximise this publication's 
audience and circulation.

The ECREA Book Series consists of books arising from the intellectual 
work of ECREA members, as (according to our publication guidelines) at 
least one of the editors and half of the authors need to be an ECREA 
member. Books address themes relevant to ECREA’s interests, make a major 
contribution to the theory, research, practice and/or policy literature, 
are European in scope, and represent a diversity of perspectives.

ECREA considers the investment in the Book Series an important 
contribution to one of its main objectives, which is to stimulate 
European communication and media studies research.

Claudia Alvares, Ilija Tomanić Trivundža and Fausto Colombo
ECREA Book Series editors



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