Peer-Reviewed Journal Details
Mandatory Fields
Campbell N.;Deane C.;Murphy P.
2015
November
Science Technology and Human Values
Advertising Nanotechnology: Imagining the Invisible
Published
2 ()
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advertising affect nanotechnology sonic culture structures of feeling visual culture
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6
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© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. Advertisements for high-technology products and services visualize processes and phenomena which are unvisualizable, such as globalization, networks, and information. We turn our attention specifically to the case of nanotechnology advertisements, using an approach that combines visual and sonic culture. Just as phenomena such as complexity and networks have become established in everyday discourse, nanotechnology seizes the social imaginary by establishing its own aesthetic conventions. Elaborating Raymond Williams’ concept of structures of feeling, we show that in visualizing nanotechnology, its stakeholders employ spaces, verbs, and objects of feeling. These favorable nanotechnology structures of feeling are woven into the social imaginary, recursively producing the reality they describe.
0162-2439
10.1177/0162243915574867
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