Display, Identity and the Everyday

Self-presentation through online image sharing

Bibliographic Data

ID2920855
AuthorsJulia Davies (0000-0001-9351-9685, University of Sheffield, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume28
Issue4
Pages549-564
Publication date2007-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiscourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01596300701625305
OpenAlexW1971356736
LanguageEN
Citations received21
References cited10

Drawing on a study of a photo-sharing website (Flickr.com), this paper explores ways in which everyday life is reconfigured through an online photo-sharing space, where traditional boundaries between the public and private spheres are being extended, challenged or eroded. The paper reflects on the presentation and subjects of the images; the narratives within and around them, and the affordances and practices which impact on the ways in which many people review and represent their "everyday selves and lives" online. The interactions on Flickr are presented as instantiating both learning and literacy as a social practice (Barton & Hamilton, 1998; Lave & Wenger, 1991) within a context that can be conceptualised as simultaneously global and local. The paper further considers the relationship between digital and traditional domestic photography, drawing on analyses of photographic representation (Hirsh, 2002; Kuhn, 1995) and contrasts how digital practices affect meanings differently

Aesthetics · Art · Internet privacy · Multimedia · Sociology · Visual arts · Art Education and Development · Computer Science · Digital Storytelling and Education · Literacy, Media, and Education · Medicine · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence

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