Digital photographic practices as expressions of personhood and identity
Variations Across School Leavers and Recent Retirees
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8041160 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathryn M Orzech (0000-0002-4896-1500), Wendy Moncur (0000-0002-1485-4723, University Ucinf), Abigail Durrant (0000-0003-4752-5376), Stuart James (0000-0002-2649-2133), John Collomosse (0000-0003-3580-4685) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 313-328 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Visual Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1472-586X • E-ISSN: 1472-5878 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1472586x.2017.1362959 |
| OpenAlex | W2771414250 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 49 |
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 co-constructed 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
Aesthetics · Art · Digital media · Digital photography · Identity (music · Lens (geology · Personhood · Photography · Political science · Social media · Sociology · The Internet · Through-the-lens metering · Visual arts · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior
Basics of qualitative research
Snapshot Versions of Life
Reframing Visual Social Science
Looking at, looking up or keeping up with people?
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Grooming, Gossip, Facebook and Myspace
Doing Visual Ethnography
Networked
New visual technologies
Lifting up voices of participatory visual research
The secret life of teens
Relational resolutions
Photography and cultural memory
What people do with pictures
A fragmented picture
Technologies for aging gracefully
Providing Adaptive Health Updates Across the Personal Social Network
Flickr and the culture of connectivity
Digital photography
Photographic visions and narrative inquiry
Reality Television as a Model for Online Behavior
Self-Presentation and Interaction in Blogs of Adolescents and Young Emerging Adults
Social Network Sites
It's only a picture
Clicking for friendship
Sociological Perspectives on Life Transitions
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |