The Interdisciplinarity of Handheld Digital Cameras in the Conceptual Access to the City: a Reconfiguration?

Abstract

This contribution examines the artificial intelligence of the digital camera on data perceived by disciplines, precisely the science of law and visual anthropology. It puts in discussion the technological issue of the perception of reality, by assessing the difference in impact that can have the data configured technologically by the eye of AI and the data of human observation, on disciplinary knowledge, on the “social identity” of the researcher and his “art of the observer” (Macdougall, 2022) or “the objective spirit” (the idea of disciplinary identity). Indeed, the evolution of the technology of digital cameras calls for the challenge of reassessing reality seen from law and visual anthropology, in circumstances of time and identical places. Indeed, this critical digital perspective is dual: it aims, on the one hand, the nature of the data to be taken into account in the criticism of concepts theorizing a phenomenon; It aims, on the other hand, the intentionality of researchers observing the same scene, in the same place, at the same time. The objective being to assess the impact that this observation technique has on the interdisciplinarity of data and on the analysis techniques used in these disciplines; In comparison with the product of the classic observatory observation.

Presenters

Abdou Njikam Njifotié
Senior Research Officer, Political and Law Studies, Centre National d'Education, Centre, Cameroon

Details

Presentation Type

Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Theme

Knowledge Makers

KEYWORDS

DISCIPLINARITY, DIGITAL, OBSERVATION, DATAS, LAW, VISUAL, ANTHROPOLOGIE, AFRICA