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Visual AI Politics and the Politics of Visual AI

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This volume examines the political power of AI-generated images, showing how they can support activism and creativity while also spreading bias, misinformation and violence.
  • 01 June 2027
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This volume examines the political power of AI-generated images, showing how they can support activism and creativity while also spreading bias, misinformation and violence.
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Price: $135.00
Pages: 272
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Bristol University Press
Publication Date: 01 June 2027
ISBN: 9781529263923
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects, COMPUTERS / Artificial Intelligence / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Impact of science and technology on society, Media studies: internet, digital media and society
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Jessica Elias is Lecturer in Criminology at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Adi Kuntsman is Reader in Digital Politics at Manchester Metropolitan University.

1. Introduction

Part I: Setting the Terms

2. Visual AI Politics/Politics of Visual AI: a roundtable - Miriyam Aouragh, Roger Canals Vilageliu, Donatella Della Ratta, Yoav Galai, Nataliia Laba, curated by Jessica Elias and Adi Kuntsman

3. AI Imaging and the Politics of Responsible Representation - Liv Hausken

4. Synthetic Sovereignty: How AI-Generated Visual Evidence is Reshaping State Legitimacy and the Politics of Testimony in Conflict Zones - Vural C. Kaptan

Part II: Generative AI and Political Ecologies Around the World

5. Generating ‘New’ Propaganda: The European Far-Right’s Use of Generative AI in Digital Environments - Allysa Czerwinsky

6. The Artificial Aestheticisation of Precarity: Labour, Status and Social Reality - Kostas Maronitis

7. Visual lies. AI-Generated images, propaganda, and electoral politics in Kenya’s political landscape - Prottus Murunga

8. A War That Could Have Been: AI, Aestheticized Violence, and Fractured Realities of a Terror Attack - Soma Basu

9. AI and the politics of visual infrastructures - Mark Cinkevich

Part III: Spotlight on Gender Politics

10. Framing Political Power: Gendered Representations in Generative AI and Stock Photography of Politicians - Carolina Judith Medina Guzmán, Catherine Bouko and Katharina Lobinger

11. Femininity as Infrastructure in Visual AI and the Work of Normative Governance - Corinna Canali and Miriam Doh

Part IV: Spotlight on Climate Politics

12. Synthetic Media for Climate Activism: Ecological Contradictions, Devices, and Reflexivity - Anna Mundet Molas

13. Visualizing Collapse: Climate Catastrophes, Speculative Violence, and the Politics of AI-Generated Imagery on TikTok, Instagram and Youtube - Sarah Lajeunesse, Manasa Bollempalli, Raghava Rao Mukkamala

Part V: All Eyes on Gaza

14. Filters of Controversy: AI Image Generators and the Aftermath of Political Scandal - Karolina Szpyrko

15. Zionist Hallucinations - Mai Omer

16. Creating Martyrs and Myths: A Semiotic Study of AI’s Role in Shaping Gaza’s Icons of Resistance - Muhammad Raza Tahir

17. Afterword: speculative politics and AI futures - Jessica Elias and Adi Kuntsman