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The Hybrid Face: Paradoxes of the Visage in the Digital Era

The Hybrid Face: Paradoxes of the Visage in the Digital Era

Leone, Massimo

Paperback

Series: Routledge/Facets Advances in Face Studies

General ReferenceAnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032460962
ISBN13: 9781032460963
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 6 2025
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This original and interdisciplinary volume explores the contemporary semiotic dimensions of the face from both scientific and sociocultural perspectives, putting forward several traditions, aspects, and signs of the human utopia of creating a hybrid face.

The book semiotically delves into the multifaceted realm of the digital face, exploring its biological and social functions, the concept of masks, the impact of COVID-19, AI systems, digital portraiture, symbolic faces in films, viral communication, alien depictions, personhood in video games, online intimacy, and digital memorials. The human face is increasingly living a life that is not only that of the biological body but also that of its digital avatar, spread through a myriad of new channels and transformable through filters, post-productions, digital cosmetics, all the way to the creation of deepfakes. The digital face expresses new and largely unknown meanings, which this book explores and analyzes through an interdisciplinary but systematic approach.

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