作者
TJ Thomson
发表日期
2021/1/2
期刊
Visual Communication Quarterly
卷号
28
期号
1
页码范围
19-33
出版商
Routledge
简介
Recent critiques contend that “Far too much current writing on photography—even in pieces about social media and photography—fixate on professional photographers,” so this piece seeks to buck that trend by focusing on ordinary smartphone owners and how they use their mobile devices to capture or create, stylize, and represent their worlds. More specifically, this study examines the “life cycle” of images from capture or creation on the device to potential editing and sharing on social media. It does so through a multimethod, qualitative approach that blends an examination of the users’ camera rolls and images they post to social media platforms with in-depth interviews to contexualize and explain their practices. The results indicate that the ordinary individuals in this sample created vastly more images than they shared and that they used their mobile devices chiefly to preserve memories, document new or …
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TJ Thomson - Visual Communication Quarterly, 2021