Sunday, 6 April 2014
Monday, 3 March 2014
Saturday, 1 March 2014
Thursday, 27 February 2014
Affect Life- Mediated Life
Reference
Dixon, N. Affect Lab (2013) The Selfie: To Live is to be Photographed. Available from: http://affectlab.org/tag/mediated-life/ [Accessed 27 February 2014]
I have come across this website that looks at articles, media coverage and user-generated content from different authors and producers. I thought this particualr page is interesting as it has extracts from various books that link to what i am studying.
Van Dijck, J. (2007) Mediated Memories in the Digital Age. California: Stanford University Press.
Whereas their parents invested considerable time and effort in building up material collections of pictures for future reference, youngster appear to take less interest in sharing photographs as objects than as sharing them as experiences. [p.114]
Digital photography is part of this larger transformation in which the self becomes the centre of a virtual universe make up of informational and spatial flows, individuals articulate their identity as social being not only by taking and storing photographs to document their lives but also by participating in communal photographic exchanges that mark their identity and interactive producers and consumers of culture.
From the above observations it is tempting to draw the conclusion that digital cameras are moving away from their prime functions as memory tools, instead becoming tool for identity formation, communication, and experience. If photographs were always a medium for remember scenes and objects from the past, digital cameras particularly encourage users to imagine and invent the present. [p.116]
Dixon, N. Affect Lab (2013) The Selfie: To Live is to be Photographed. Available from: http://affectlab.org/tag/mediated-life/ [Accessed 27 February 2014]
I have come across this website that looks at articles, media coverage and user-generated content from different authors and producers. I thought this particualr page is interesting as it has extracts from various books that link to what i am studying.
José Van Dijck Mediated Memories in the Digital AgeReference
Van Dijck, J. (2007) Mediated Memories in the Digital Age. California: Stanford University Press.
Whereas their parents invested considerable time and effort in building up material collections of pictures for future reference, youngster appear to take less interest in sharing photographs as objects than as sharing them as experiences. [p.114]
Digital photography is part of this larger transformation in which the self becomes the centre of a virtual universe make up of informational and spatial flows, individuals articulate their identity as social being not only by taking and storing photographs to document their lives but also by participating in communal photographic exchanges that mark their identity and interactive producers and consumers of culture.
From the above observations it is tempting to draw the conclusion that digital cameras are moving away from their prime functions as memory tools, instead becoming tool for identity formation, communication, and experience. If photographs were always a medium for remember scenes and objects from the past, digital cameras particularly encourage users to imagine and invent the present. [p.116]
Group Crit Session
After today's group crit session, I have chosen to focus on a more specific subject from my original idea, to look at the mediated lives referring to a photo album photograph to a image posted online via Instagram, and how that has revolved over the years.
Using this idea I can look into how the physical photo album has died out and what was once an item cherished by only the family who posses it, has changed to today, the personal images we would use then are now instantaneously openly published online for anyone to view. I want to research journals and theorists who show why this may have happened and what may of let this happen, maybe how the idea of evolution and technology has advanced in knowledge leading us to cheaper cameras, cheaper smart phones, which makes it more cheaper and accessible for people to use.
Using this idea I can look into how the physical photo album has died out and what was once an item cherished by only the family who posses it, has changed to today, the personal images we would use then are now instantaneously openly published online for anyone to view. I want to research journals and theorists who show why this may have happened and what may of let this happen, maybe how the idea of evolution and technology has advanced in knowledge leading us to cheaper cameras, cheaper smart phones, which makes it more cheaper and accessible for people to use.
Wednesday, 12 February 2014
Monday, 10 February 2014
Critical Analysis Essay Research- Instagram
Instagram- A social networking site where you can publish images of anything you wish from where you visited today to your new hairstyle! Users can also comment on photographs and publically 'like' them with a press of a button.
I want to investigate the use of social networking sites such as Instagram and how people document their lives to a certain extent to where people can find out where you're location is to the meal you're about to eat.
I want to investigate the use of social networking sites such as Instagram and how people document their lives to a certain extent to where people can find out where you're location is to the meal you're about to eat.
BBC NEWSNIGHT Interview
The Tinder Phenomenon
Youtube video (no longer available on BBC iPlayer)
I also feel that this app is very intimidating and almost absurd as you can only judge what the persons personality may be like or the chemistry/attraction you may get between each other by the use of their profile picture.
It also may be slightly dangerous as they could put any photograph online and it may not even be them! As well as finding you matches based on your location, is it really worth broadcasting your every move?
Reference
BBC Newsnight (2013) NEWSNIGHT: The tinder phenomenon. Youtube [Video] 12 December. Available from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBOSJI3gIZA [Accessed 10 January 2014]
My Idea -Critical Perspectives
Notes
Social media- instagram
How people document their lives in images day to day- one click and its available to see all over the world. Things that may be considered to be private.
Wrong or right?
Social media- instagram
How people document their lives in images day to day- one click and its available to see all over the world. Things that may be considered to be private.
Wrong or right?
- Selfies
- Sharing locations
- Paper photo albums usage decreasing
- Used for fame- gain followers
- Celebrity influences
- Your children, places you go, your home, yourself (some more revealing than others)
- The act of survailance
- Beyoncé- self museum?
- News night interview Paxsman
- Terms and condtions -Facebook, Instagram
- Film- The lives of others
- Tinder
- Adam Curtis- Blog*
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