Relational resolutions: digital encounters in ethnographic fieldwork

Botticello, Julie; Fisher, Tom; Woodward, Sophie

doi:10.1080/1472586x.2016.1246350

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“…Lee et al note that 'the digital medium unifies the differences between text, music, photographs and other media; interrupting their ability to restore form to communication on their own terms ' (2010, 141). Photos no longer standalone: they have associated metadata, tags, and associations with other media in their presentation online, which enrich and contextualise their meaning (Botticello, Fisher, and Woodward 2016;Rose 2016;Pauwels 2015) Thus digital photos contribute to the milieu of an individual's digital identity. This term describes 'how the data or information referring to people is created, captured, managed, verified and (ab)used by themselves and/or others (individuals, businesses or government) in life and death' (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council 2015).…”

Section: Background Photographic Practices As Components Of Digital Imentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital photographic practices as expressions of personhood and identity: variations across school leavers and recent retirees

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Over the last two decades, digital photography has been adopted by young and old. Many young adults easily take photos, share them across multiple social networks using smartphones, and create digital identities for themselves consciously and unconsciously. Is the same true for older adults? As part of a larger mixed-methods study of online life in the UK, we considered digital photographic practices at two life transitions: leaving secondary school and retiring from work. In this paper, we report on a complex picture of different kinds of interactions with visual media online, and variation across age groups in the construction of digital identities. In doing so, we argue for a blurring of the distinctions between Chalfen's 'Kodak Culture' and Miller and Edwards' 'Snaprs'. The camera lens often faces inwards for young adults: tagged 'Selfies' and images coconstructed with social network members commonly contribute to their digital identities. In contrast, retirees turn the camera's lens outwards towards the world, not inwards to themselves. In concluding, we pay special attention to the digital social norms of co-creation of self and balancing convenience and privacy for people of varying ages, and what our findings mean for the future of photo-sharing as a form of self-expression, as today's young adults grow old and retire. Dr. Kathryn M. Orzech is a research fellow interested in how online life and connectivity change across the physical lifespan. Her research focuses on the intersections of anthropology, digital technology, and health. Dr Wendy Moncur holds an Interdisciplinary Chair in Digital Living at the University of Dundee, where she leads the Living Digital group. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on the design of digital technologies to support lived human experience across the lifespan, and is grounded in Human-Computer Interaction.

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Section: Background Photographic Practices As Components Of Digital Imentioning

confidence: 99%