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Seeing Non-humans: A Social Ontology of the Visual Technology Photoshop

Knochel, Aaron D.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1316451835

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2011, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Art Education.
In an expanding technological ecology, the spaces of learning in art education require a new appraisal of the role that visual technologies serve to learners. Through intersections of actor-network theory and theories of visuality from visual culture studies, this research focuses on developing a social ontology to investigate the role that the visual technology Photoshop plays in collaborating with users within a human-technological hybrid. In a role reversal, for this research I become the instrument of research and Photoshop becomes the focus of a non-human ethnographic inquiry that utilizes an ontological framework to consider how technology performs with us and not on us. This symmetry between human and non-humans in a social ontology generates the complexity of Photoshop in a heterogeneous network formation of agencies, through more than its instrumentality, by seeing it working with me in the production of digital visual culture.
Kevin Tavin (Committee Chair)
Sydney Walker (Committee Member)
Jennifer Eisenhauer (Committee Member)
Robert Sweeny (Committee Member)
323 p.
Art Education
art education; visual culture; actor-network theory; visuality; digital technology; social ontology; assemblage theory

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  • Knochel, A. D. (2011). Seeing Non-humans: A Social Ontology of the Visual Technology Photoshop [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1316451835

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Knochel, Aaron. Seeing Non-humans: A Social Ontology of the Visual Technology Photoshop. 2011. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1316451835.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Knochel, Aaron. "Seeing Non-humans: A Social Ontology of the Visual Technology Photoshop." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1316451835

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