Exploring taste formation and performance in the illicit trade of human remains on Instagram
The Digital Age has greatly expanded the scope of the illicit trade of art and antiquities - including human remains from archaeological and other contexts. From the Dark Web to social media platforms, the online world has become a marketplace fostering the creation of new trade networks, exchanging...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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Crime and art
Year: 2021, Pages: 29-44 |
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| Summary: | The Digital Age has greatly expanded the scope of the illicit trade of art and antiquities - including human remains from archaeological and other contexts. From the Dark Web to social media platforms, the online world has become a marketplace fostering the creation of new trade networks, exchanging objects as well as ideas. Vendors on social media continue to benefit from the legal grey area and lack of enforcement around trading human remains, posting images of their objects for sale and leaving the responsibility for adhering to state laws to the buyer. As an image-based social network, Instagram is one such space where the exchange of ideas and the creation of ‘taste’ - through image content, composition and hashtags - are evident through visual and metadata trends. This chapter explores an approach to measuring the visual similarity of posts within the illicit trade of human remains on Instagram, along with the textual content of those posts, towards a way of tracking the development and evolution of taste formation in this trade. We employ a ‘distant viewing’ approach using machine vision to trace influence within illicit trade networks on Instagram to witness the development of taste and the expansion of the market. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 42-44 |
| Physical Description: | Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9783030848569 |
