Criminal trials have traditionally favoured live, physically present, embodied human testimony. A paradigm shift is occurring with the increasing use of video technologies in criminal proceedings, hinting at a future immaterial, digitized posthuman courtroom. My PhD research at the University of Sydney explores the expanding use of video technologies and the associated disappearance of the human body from the criminal justice system.
Monday, 18 April 2011
Theatres of violence: facts and fictions
Here's a summary of my notes (filtered through Wordle) from an Institute of Criminology event I attended tonight: Theatres of violence: facts and fiction. Panel members were true crime author Clive Small, journalist and fiction writer Mark Dapin and criminologists David Brown and Rebecca Scott Bray.
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