It took me three years after the first iPhone launch to purchase my first smartphone. My having waited until February 2010 suggests something about the time needed for new technologies to be more fully adopted by the general public. In any case, it was also a matter of price: it was expensive but I mainly saw it as a status statement and thus I resisted. Even as someone doing research on mobile communications, I felt buying one was a kind of non-needed luxury and did not want to fall into the consumption trap. Still, I finally decided to purchase an iPhone with a 3-megapixel auto-focus camera which would enable the possibility of downloading apps, surfing online and participating in the “Convergence Culture” (Jenkins: 2006) and the notion of “Mobile Phone Cultures” (Goggin: 2008) as a composite of various factors and formed in relationship to other products and their diverse usages as well. As soon as I got my iPhone, I started to take pictures exclusively with that one device, forgetting all my other digital devices now that the possibility of image […] Archives du tag «english»
The Intimacy of Strong Ties in Mobile Visual Communication
It took me three years after the first iPhone launch to purchase my first smartphone. My having waited until February 2010 suggests something about the time needed for new technologies to be more fully adopted by the general public. In any case, it was also a matter of price: it was expensive but I mainly saw it as a status statement and thus I resisted. Even as someone doing research on mobile communications, I felt buying one was a kind of non-needed luxury and did not want to fall into the consumption trap. Still, I finally decided to purchase an iPhone with a 3-megapixel auto-focus camera which would enable the possibility of downloading apps, surfing online and participating in the “Convergence Culture” (Jenkins: 2006) and the notion of “Mobile Phone Cultures” (Goggin: 2008) as a composite of various factors and formed in relationship to other products and their diverse usages as well. As soon as I got my iPhone, I started to take pictures exclusively with that one device, forgetting all my other digital devices now that the possibility of image […] Memes and the profile avatar: online rituals of solidarity and activism
Rituals are an important part of social interaction. According to Erving Goffman, all social interaction takes place as a small ceremony consisting of rituals and parades which have their own specific grammar[1]. This paper explores the rituals which constitute online interaction in specific contexts on social network sites (sns). The study questions the influence of [...] Crowdsourcing protest videos
Crowdvoice.org is an online project that tracks voices of protest from around the world by crowdsourcing information; its purpose is to archive, aggregate, and collecting videos related to political issues.
The average quantity of videos uploaded per day/week/month depends on the events that occur. The videos posted come all from anonymous senders, being email addresses the [...] Grams and Picks: pocket downloadable memories
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2-3 May 2012, Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA), 2 rue Vivienne, 75002 Paris (open to all, free admission).
Organized by Dr Jason E. Hill (INHA) and Dr Elisa Schaar (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
This two-day international symposium considers the dynamic interplay of the fine arts and the technologies and structures of the mass media across [...]
Is Shoah a Memorial?
I would like to begin by coming back to the title of this presentation [note 1]. Is Shoah a Memorial? There are only four words in that question, but at least two of them have to be explained. Actually, I won’t focus on the first question, what’s a Memorial? I’d just like to specify that, by Memorials, I’m not only thinking of the monuments, in their materiality, but also to symbolic forms such as films, or texts and paintings… Second question: What’s Shoah? Infographics: Facts, not Fiction
Some experts who care about and practice visual news have sharp complaints about the non-factual graphics that were so widespread in the media’s coverage of the death of Osama bin Laden on May 1.
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cfp: New Playscapes? Exploring horizons of imagination
MFRU, International Festival of Computer Arts in Maribor, Slovenia invites papers on video games and cinema, to be presented at the festival’s Symposium, taking place on 19. and 20. November 2010.
The festival
The International Festival of Computer Arts (MFRU), Maribor, Slovenia was established in 1994. At that time, it was the [...]
CFP: The Journal of International and Intercultural Communication
JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AND INTERCULTURAL
COMMUNICATION ANNOUNCES SPECIAL FORUM ON NEW MEDIA/TECHNOLOGIES AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
Editor, Robert Shuter
The Journal of International and Intercultural Communication invites proposals for a special forum comprised of state-of-the-art essays on new media/technologies and intercultural communication. New media/technologies abound and, while definitions vary, the terms generally refer to digital information transmitted through computers [...]
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The rise of photographic agencies or wire services as satellite businesses of news agencies and the set-up of all kinds of specialized picture suppliers is commonly defined as the time between the first and second World War, namely in the 1920s and 1930s. The demand of photographs for newspapers, magazines and most notably the emerging [...] Leafing through our cyberdelic paleofuture
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When, in the early 1990s, California visionaries started shaping the mythography of Cyberdelia I was elsewhere. And I’ve been elsewhere ever since. I’ve been looking at this grand exploit of our techno-social imaginary like an astronomer would look at a dead star: from afar, with an uncertain feeling of beholding something that already [...] 
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