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]
