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17. Documenting Neuropolitics: Cochlear Implant Activation Videos

verfasst von : Beate Ochsner

Erschienen in: Documentary and Disability

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Abstract

This chapter offers a study of the various political, ethical and aesthetic conditions inscribed in or ascribed to short online video documentations that capture the moment when a cochlear implant, a surgically inserted medical device that mimics the functioning of the inner ear, is switched on for the first time. Focusing on videos situated in a broad contemporary media space, it also draws attention to the contrasts between film and digital practices that connect even highly emotionalised moments – like the ‘hearing for the first time’ event – with concrete technological, social, political and organisational conditions. Looking at the specific staging of the event, the author explores the complex sociotechnical arrangements enrolling heterogeneous actors engaged in the video-documented struggle for hearing.

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Fußnoten
1
Sarah Churman also has a blog (http://​sarahchurman.​blogspot.​com) and has written a book entitled Powered On, which was published in 2012.
 
2
YouTube offers automatically generated subtitles, but the results are not convincing.
 
3
See e.g. Little Girl Hears for the First Time with Her Cochlear Implant, published on 12 November 2014.
 
4
See e.g. Marcus 2014.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Documenting Neuropolitics: Cochlear Implant Activation Videos
verfasst von
Beate Ochsner
Copyright-Jahr
2017
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59894-3_17