Increasingly, snapshots taken with mobile phone appear to be living a less autonomous life, as they are ever more involved into intense processes of circulation and cross-media mobility. While camera phones are a well-established means for the production and display of pictures in contexts of physical co-presence, the archival and exchange functions appear to have been absorbed by online communicative and social practices. Our research revolves around three main issues: a) the effects of the new internet/photography merge (particularly, the new opportunities for transmission and sharing) on the social uses of personal photographs; b) the changes in the status of mobile photography and of its audience due to the online re-location of image collections; c) the implications for mobile communication studies. These points will be addressed in two steps. I will first trace an overall picture of these practices in the context of teens and young Italians digital cross-media consumptions (drawing on empirical qualitative data). My discussion is then contextualised in light of other recent contributions on the topic. I argue that the social uses and meanings of personal mobile photographs that are reiterated and reinforced in the present phase were already well-established in the pre-web 2.0 Italian camera phone culture. I interpret this as underscoring both the intrinsically relational nature of these practices, and their basic orientation towards micro-community maintenance and strengthening.
Scifo, B., The Sociocultural Forms of Mobile Personal Photographs in a Cross-Media Ecology: Reflections Starting from the Young Italian Experience, <<KNOWLEDGE, TECHNOLOGY, & POLICY>>, 2009; Volume 22 (3): 185-194. [doi:10.1007/s12130-009-9080-1] [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/12371]
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Titolo: | The Sociocultural Forms of Mobile Personal Photographs in a Cross-Media Ecology: Reflections Starting from the Young Italian Experience |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12130-009-9080-1 |
URL: | http://www.springerlink.com/content/a87n312q46233tm0/ |
Data di pubblicazione: | 2009 |
Abstract: | Increasingly, snapshots taken with mobile phone appear to be living a less autonomous life, as they are ever more involved into intense processes of circulation and cross-media mobility. While camera phones are a well-established means for the production and display of pictures in contexts of physical co-presence, the archival and exchange functions appear to have been absorbed by online communicative and social practices. Our research revolves around three main issues: a) the effects of the new internet/photography merge (particularly, the new opportunities for transmission and sharing) on the social uses of personal photographs; b) the changes in the status of mobile photography and of its audience due to the online re-location of image collections; c) the implications for mobile communication studies. These points will be addressed in two steps. I will first trace an overall picture of these practices in the context of teens and young Italians digital cross-media consumptions (drawing on empirical qualitative data). My discussion is then contextualised in light of other recent contributions on the topic. I argue that the social uses and meanings of personal mobile photographs that are reiterated and reinforced in the present phase were already well-established in the pre-web 2.0 Italian camera phone culture. I interpret this as underscoring both the intrinsically relational nature of these practices, and their basic orientation towards micro-community maintenance and strengthening. |
Lingua: | Inglese |
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Citazione: | Scifo, B., The Sociocultural Forms of Mobile Personal Photographs in a Cross-Media Ecology: Reflections Starting from the Young Italian Experience, <<KNOWLEDGE, TECHNOLOGY, & POLICY>>, 2009; Volume 22 (3): 185-194. [doi:10.1007/s12130-009-9080-1] [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/12371] |
Appare nelle tipologie: | Articolo in rivista, Nota a sentenza |