The Subjectivity of Eyes in the Sky: Understanding Remote Sensing through the Cuban Missile Crisis and the 2003 Build-Up to War in Iraq.
This essay examines how meaning is subjectively derived from remotely sensed images of the earth obtained from airplanes or satellites. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and the US build-up to war with Iraq in 2003 are used as case studies to demonstrate the dangers of ascribing a scientific objectiv...
| Published in: | Journal of Visual Literacy Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. 209 - 219 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Autumn2007
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