Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media
platforms driven by data processes. Fifty years after Berger and Luckmann published their …

Recent changes in visual communication refer to photography becoming 'networked'due to
the prevalent practice of sharing photographs immediately after capture via instant …

Automating Vision explores the rise of seeing machines through four case studies: facial
recognition, drone vision, mobile and locative media and driverless cars. Proposing a …

A photograph can mediate the presence of the absent, the object or person captured in the
photograph. Now, with the aid of the network connection provided by the camera phone …

Previous research on selfies has primarily focused on selfies as media products rather than
as an activity. In this paper, we examine selfies as a situated practice, connecting the social …

Taking photographs has been an integral part of family life. However, recent technological
innovations in mobile communication have paved the way for diverse use of photographic …

The popularity of sharing photographs on digital platforms has increased significantly due to
the communicative affordances of mobile media and the emergence of photo-sharing …

Through the smartphone, the production and circulation of digital visual media have become
as costless and accessible as audio and text-based communication. It would be challenging …

Phatic communication is a mode of communication where the significative content of the
used utterance gives way to the social bonding function of the utterance itself. This mode of …

The availability and affordability of memory and other services formats to store digital
material has proliferated over the past 15 years. Making, sharing and storing digital material …