“…Scholars have compared camera-phone and analogue photography and some (e.g., Warburton, 1997) believe analogue pictures reflect reality more accurately. Buse (2013) argues that the Polaroid camera produces authentic shots that people cannot disfigure. Critics think Instagram is the "antithesis of creativity" that lowers the artistic standards of photography and creates shallower and artificial images (Bevan, 2012).…”
Section: Implications Of Self-disclosure For Visual Self-expressionmentioning
This study employed the media uses and gratifications model to examine the needs and motives of Instagram users that predict self-disclosure use. Students from the Gulf University of Science and Technology, Kuwait, were surveyed for this study. This study suggests that Instagram provides categories of needs and motives similar in nature to those of the other social media such as self-expression, social interaction, entertainment and opinion exchange. It also caters to the need for experimenting with photography that few available social media satisfy. Self-expression and social interaction needs were the strongest predictors of the use of Instagram for self-disclosure on all its dimensions, that is, honesty, amount, positive valence and depth. Other intersecting factors such as biological sex and frequency of use showed different patterns of use. The implications of Arab culture on Instagram use are discussed since Kuwaiti culture, as opposed to the Western cultures, is more collectivist in nature.
“…Scholars have compared camera-phone and analogue photography and some (e.g., Warburton, 1997) believe analogue pictures reflect reality more accurately. Buse (2013) argues that the Polaroid camera produces authentic shots that people cannot disfigure. Critics think Instagram is the "antithesis of creativity" that lowers the artistic standards of photography and creates shallower and artificial images (Bevan, 2012).…”
Section: Implications Of Self-disclosure For Visual Self-expressionmentioning
This study employed the media uses and gratifications model to examine the needs and motives of Instagram users that predict self-disclosure use. Students from the Gulf University of Science and Technology, Kuwait, were surveyed for this study. This study suggests that Instagram provides categories of needs and motives similar in nature to those of the other social media such as self-expression, social interaction, entertainment and opinion exchange. It also caters to the need for experimenting with photography that few available social media satisfy. Self-expression and social interaction needs were the strongest predictors of the use of Instagram for self-disclosure on all its dimensions, that is, honesty, amount, positive valence and depth. Other intersecting factors such as biological sex and frequency of use showed different patterns of use. The implications of Arab culture on Instagram use are discussed since Kuwaiti culture, as opposed to the Western cultures, is more collectivist in nature.
“…Polaroid clearly had accumulated sufficient objective historical knowledge to capture the grammar of the technology of photography and trace its “invisible thread” to an imagined future in which digital photography dominated. Buse (, p. 215) observes that as early as 1991, at its annual meeting, Polaroid distributed to its shareholders a document that fully described the sociological imaginaire of the future of photography:Beneath an image depicting a Polaroid camera, a Polaroid print, a scanner, a computer, and a laser printer, the document details how in the future “image‐dependent businesses” will rely on “converting … images into digital data that can be easily integrated with other computer data.”…”
Research Summary
The capacity to manage history is an important but undertheorized component of dynamic capabilities. We argue that the capacity to manage the interpretation of the past, in the present for the future, is a critical ability that informs a firm's ability to successfully enact changes needed to adapt to disruptive technology. We identify and elaborate three specific cognitive interpretations of history—history as objective fact, history as interpretive rhetoric, and history as imaginative future‐perfect thinking—and demonstrate how these different views of history can be mobilized by managers to sense, seize, and reconfigure around opportunities made available by understanding the invisible thread of technology.
Managerial Summary
History is typically understood to be a constraint on a manager's ability to effect change. A firm's past is assumed to create inertia in routines and structures that compromise a firm's ability to change. We show how acquiring a broader understanding of the role of history can improve a manager's ability to enact organizational change. Studying the evolution of technology over time and across products allows managers to sense opportunities created by technological change. Using different narrations of the past as continuous or disruptive can improve a manager's ability to motivate or resist change. Using the past to construct convincing scenarios of the future, managers can enroll key stakeholders in the industry to support a strategic direction that advances the firm's strategic goals.
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