Animating the Bomber: The Sydney Bomber Trial

Christina Spiesel, Greg BATTYE, Neil Feigenson

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    Abstract

    When visual evidence is shown in court, specific features of the media employed and jurors’ experiences with those media in their everyday lives affect their responses. Computer animations can depict what film or video cannot record, but precisely because animations can depict anything whatever, their truthfulness can be questioned. Yet animations also share key features with film and video that encourage belief: the flow of images diverts viewers from the details of any single frame, and movement itself enhances verisimilitude. Jurors’ experiences of seeing animations as news and as science and of interacting with computer games can imbue evidentiary animations with added credibility. Appreciating these aspects of the medium can help all participants in legal proceedings to better assess the persuasive benefits and judgemental risks of courtroom animations
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationJuries, Science and Popular Culture in the Age of Terror
    EditorsDavid Tait, Jane Goodman-Delahunty
    Place of PublicationLondon
    PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
    Chapter4
    Pages55-65
    Number of pages11
    Edition1
    ISBN (Electronic)9781137554758
    ISBN (Print)9781137554741
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2017

    Publication series

    NameJuries, Science and Popular Culture in the Age of Terror

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