All Visual, all the Time: Towards a Theory of Visual Practices for Pastoral Theological Reflection

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• 作者：Sonia Waters
• 关键词：Visual culture ; Michael Brown ; Social media ; Ferguson ; Michel Foucault
• 刊名：Pastoral Psychology
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：65
• 期：6
• 页码：849-861
• 全文大小：342 KB
• 刊物类别：Behavioral Science
• 刊物主题：Psychology
  Clinical Psychology
  Religious Studies
  Cross Cultural Psychology
  Sociology
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-6679
• 卷排序：65

文摘

Visual culture deeply influences those whom pastoral care providers serve, and contemporary practices with images complicate images’ contribution to personal or social suffering. I begin by describing the mobile, networked dynamics of contemporary visual practices, which include receiving but also creating, curating, and sharing images in emergent and shifting visual communities. I then utilize visual studies theorist Gary Shapiro’s concept of visual regimes, outlining how images work as a kind of soft power that influences the social construction of meaning. I illustrate these practices through a selection of images surrounding the police shooting of Michael Brown by officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, and the protests and online debates that arose from that tragic event. I suggest throughout this paper that images play a major part in the social construction of subjective worlds and thus contribute both to our suffering and to the meaning we make from our suffering.