Sini Kaipainen
Biographic Data
| ID | 6814008 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sini Kaipainen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sini |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaipainen |
| SIGNATURE | KAIPAINEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aalto University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2950-7238 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“A tyranny of technology”
Authenticity in photojournalism as documentary evidence differs from Instagram-created authenticity as “sincere” self-presentation that equates self-branding with self-expression. Self-branding tactics can consolidate or compromise authenticity standards in photojournalism rooted in factuality, reality, and truth value. Yet, the rise of self-branding through performed authenticity by and of photojournalists on Instagram has not attracted scholarl…
‘It’s What I Do’
This close reading of the public persona outlines how high-profile war photojournalist Lynsey Addario articulated ‘it’s what I do’ in her public Instagram account construed as an ongoing digital memoir. Addario’s Instagram profile and her formal journalistic memoir, It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War (2015), are fluid continuums of different forms and features that support, authenticate, and promote her public work persona, usi…
A critically methodological approach
The present study addresses one possible template for exploring the meanings of photojournalistic self-presentation on Instagram. I employ automedial close reading for the data collected from one Instagram user and his profile in the cases of two professional photojournalists: Ed Kashi and Sebastian Rich. I test and develop the process of close reading in the context of Instagram and professional photojournalism. I am founding this practice on an…
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‘It’s What I Do’
This close reading of the public persona outlines how high-profile war photojournalist Lynsey Addario articulated ‘it’s what I do’ in her public Instagram account construed as an ongoing digital memoir. Addario’s Instagram profile and her formal journalistic memoir, It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War (2015), are fluid continuums of different forms and features that support, authenticate, and promote her public work persona, usi…
A critically methodological approach
The present study addresses one possible template for exploring the meanings of photojournalistic self-presentation on Instagram. I employ automedial close reading for the data collected from one Instagram user and his profile in the cases of two professional photojournalists: Ed Kashi and Sebastian Rich. I test and develop the process of close reading in the context of Instagram and professional photojournalism. I am founding this practice on an…
“A tyranny of technology”
Authenticity in photojournalism as documentary evidence differs from Instagram-created authenticity as “sincere” self-presentation that equates self-branding with self-expression. Self-branding tactics can consolidate or compromise authenticity standards in photojournalism rooted in factuality, reality, and truth value. Yet, the rise of self-branding through performed authenticity by and of photojournalists on Instagram has not attracted scholarl…
Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Media Studies and Communication (3 works) · Photojournalism (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (2 works) · Humanities (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works)