MEDIAST 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Kodak, Commodification, Mobile Telephony
28 Feb 2017
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Ibrahim, instagramming life: banal imaging and poetics of everyday. Image entwined with societies, representing cultures and indentities with different ways to gaze into distant, intimate, public and private. Mitchell: living in any culture is visual culture. Everyday capture and uploads of the trivial. Mobile telephony and pervasive creation of digital presence and content in our contemporary society. Everyday becomes commodified where wider public can connect. Forms basis for one"s identity to be extended and social capita (importance for self- validation from endorsement by others) Mobile phone extends ability to augment visual memory with mnemonic devices where these enable storage and retrieval. 1- entails intimate appropriation of body by mobile tech, extending sensory and cognitive functions. 2- smartphones part of wider ecology of content creation where content is created and uploaded. Improvements to tech for better capture of banal imaging. Power of gaze relate to power relationships in society.
