Digitexed television news: the beginning of the end for photographic reality in photojournalism.
The digitalization of the mass media poses a serious threat to photographic realism in journalism because such “digitexing” technology provides fast and undetectable visual image creation and amendment capability to any photojournalist who desires to manipulate a visual presentation. In the foresee...
| Publicado en: | Business & Professional Ethics Journal Vol. 11; pp. 51 - 71 |
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Philosophy Documentation Center
Spring 1992
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