Asko Lehmuskallio

Nordisk årsbok i rättsinformatik följer en lång tradition av att belysa den senaste utvecklingen inom området rättsinformatik. Boken följer och rapporterar om utvecklingen i de skandinaviska länder. I den här upplagan av Nordisk årsboken i rättsinformatik bidrar också flera internationella experter. Årsboken belyser aktuella frågor och tendenser i informationssamhället och utgör en värdefull källa för båda akademiker och praktiserande jurister. Professor emeritus Peter Seipel, Professor Peter Blume, Professor Dag Wiese Schartum, Professor Ahti Saarenpää och Professor Cecilia Magnusson Sjöberg är några av de experter som bidrar till boken. Nordisk årsbok i rättsinformatik diskuterar problem som har uppstått i och med samhällets användning av informations- och kommunikationsteknologi, bland annat: · Hur den personliga integriteten ter sig i framtiden. · Hur immaterialrätten påverkas i informationssamhället. · Hur man kan skydda den personliga integriteten och samtidigt främja informationssäkerhet. · Vad begrepp som den semantiska webben och sociala medier har för betydelse för utvecklingen av juristers informationssökning. · Hur kunskapshanteringssystem kommer att fungera i framtiden. Ett centralt tema i boken är hur man bör balansera kraven på ökad juridisk reglering med hur man bör ta hänsyn till de röster som vill ha mindre regler i informationssamhället. Därtill diskuteras vilka juridiska angreppssätt som är mest lämpliga.

This book presents a transcultural and generative introduction to the field of visual studies. Aimed primarily, but not exclusively, at students and scholars in the social sciences, it explores the multiple meanings of images and visual culture in human life.Divided into three parts, the first section departs from a framework of the look as a medium for understanding imaging practices and offers a critical analysis of the changing ways in which vision has been understood across epochs and cultures and the politics attached. The second section opens with an expanded understanding of images, addressing their affective, sensory and performative roles. It then discusses semiotic tensions between the icon and the index and the role of social interaction in the visual field and ends with an analysis of immersive viewing in a creative juxtaposition between distinct, culturally situated, imaging practices. Building on the previous sections, the third part provides a series of applications in specific terrains, such as on the significance of faces, on cameras and their environments, the visual culture of death, x-ray imagery and the meaning and role of shadows. Insisting on the role of the look as a medium for studying the visual field, this book reminds us of the importance of images not only as representations of the world but also as proper co-travellers and companions of our journeys on the earth.The book serves as an ideal introductory text for courses across the social sciences by directing the reader’s attention to the generativity and interactivity of imaging practices.

This book presents a transcultural and generative introduction to the field of visual studies. Aimed primarily, but not exclusively, at students and scholars in the social sciences, it explores the multiple meanings of images and visual culture in human life.Divided into three parts, the first section departs from a framework of the look as a medium for understanding imaging practices and offers a critical analysis of the changing ways in which vision has been understood across epochs and cultures and the politics attached. The second section opens with an expanded understanding of images, addressing their affective, sensory and performative roles. It then discusses semiotic tensions between the icon and the index and the role of social interaction in the visual field and ends with an analysis of immersive viewing in a creative juxtaposition between distinct, culturally situated, imaging practices. Building on the previous sections, the third part provides a series of applications in specific terrains, such as on the significance of faces, on cameras and their environments, the visual culture of death, x-ray imagery and the meaning and role of shadows. Insisting on the role of the look as a medium for studying the visual field, this book reminds us of the importance of images not only as representations of the world but also as proper co-travellers and companions of our journeys on the earth.The book serves as an ideal introductory text for courses across the social sciences by directing the reader’s attention to the generativity and interactivity of imaging practices.