Locating the Visual

A Case Study of Gendered Location-Based Services and Camera Phone Practices in Seoul, South Korea

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12755817
AutoresL Hjorth (0000-0002-4793-3233, RMIT University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Volumen15
Número1
Páginas30-42
Fecha de publicación2013-04-04
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTelevision & New Media (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1527-4764 • E-ISSN: 1552-8316
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1527476413483841
OpenAlexW2167055860
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas24

Smartphones are increasingly becoming an all-pervasive and embedded part of everyday life. In this phenomenon, the rise of high-quality camera phones and growth in distribution services via social media has heralded new forms of visuality. With geotagging almost a default setting, these new visualities are marked by a different relationship between information, co-presence, and place. In particular, these new visualities are shaping, and shaped by, gender. One key location that has become famous for its high deployment of camera phone practices, especially self-portraiture ( sel-ca) by women, is Seoul, South Korea. However, as camera phone practices increasingly intertwine with locative media, we see a shift in the motivations, genres, and affects. In this article, I explore some preliminary studies conducted into women’s use of camera phones and how, with the overlay of locative media like geotagging, this is shifting the role of camera phone images in depicting place and intimacy

Art · Camera phone · Computer vision · Everyday life · Geotagging · Internet privacy · Locative case · Media studies · Mobile phone · Multimedia · Phone · Photography · Political science · Social media · Sociology · Software deployment · Telecommunications · Visual arts · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Media Studies and Communication