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In this chapter, I propose a processual approach to the contemporary context of digital visual research. I consider the following questions: What does the ‘technological possible’ mean for digital visual research?; What are the implications of seeing researcher engagement with new and emerging technologies as improvisation rather than innovation?; What does this mean for an ethics of responsibility in digital visual research?; How can we harness techniques that involve digital visual technologies for making or ensuring better futures?
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Pink, S. (2017). Technologies, Possibilities, Emergence and an Ethics of Responsibility: Refiguring Techniques. In: Gómez Cruz, E., Sumartojo, S., Pink, S. (eds) Refiguring Techniques in Digital Visual Research. Digital Ethnography. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61222-5_1
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