Instagramming life: banal imaging and the poetics of the everyday

Ibrahim, Yasmin

doi:10.1080/14682753.2015.1015800

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“…Focusing on the cultural implications of using the platform of Instagram, scholars have argued that it contributes to an 'aestheticization' of the mundane through 'banal imaging' (Ibrahim: 2015). This fusion of aesthetics and everyday life, has supported the rise of a new segment of talented entrepreneurial influencers on Instagram with well-developed skills and competencies in terms of visual presentation, and productions of selfies (Abidin: 2016) -which are crucial for gaining popularity, or 'instafame' (Marwick: 2015), on the platform.…”

Section: Illness Narratives On Social Media As An Interactional Practicementioning

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Cancer narratives on social media as ‘small stories’

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Cancer narratives shared on social media platforms have received increased academic interest over the last decade but often without sufficiently acknowledging the media specific narrative affordances of these platforms. The article will address this problem, by first presenting a ‘small stories’ approach to studying illness narrative on social media and then putting the approach to work in a case study of a Danish cancer patient’s Instagram profile (@jannelivsnyder66). The paper argues, that the storytelling practices on the profile can be analytically approached by focusing on the interplay between three co-constitutive levels of interaction: 1) a level of the desired illness narrative and position that the narrator, influenced by available cultural discourses and interaction with followers, hopes to be able to tell; 2) a level of sharing everyday posts, which can either support or disturb the desired narrative; 3) a level of follower responses, where relations between the desired narrative and singular posts are monitored through processes of liking and commenting. Followers of social media cancer narratives should in light of this not be understood as an audience witnessing an individual telling his/her “own” story, but rather as crucial contributors to the social interaction and co-creation of desired narratives, subject positions, narrative progress and tellability. In conclusion, the article thus stresses that cancer storytelling on social media, despite the strong biological connection of the disease to an individual body, emerges through inherently social processes of reading, liking, commenting, monitoring and co-deciding narrative practices.

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Section: Illness Narratives On Social Media As An Interactional Practicementioning

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Cancer narratives on social media as ‘small stories’

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“…The current forerunners in social media are now image-based services, such as Instagram and Pinterest, and imagebased mobile messaging applications such as Snapchat. One of the main reasons for this shift to imagebased services has been the emergence of smartphone photography (McNely, 2012;Rainie, Brenner, & Purcell, 2012;Vong, 2012;Ibrahim, 2015), coupled with the adoption of dedicated smartphone applications (apps), which have simplified the sharing of images with friends, family, and the world at large. Research by Van House and Davis (2005) in particular has found that cameraphone images are taken with very social intentions, including creating and maintaining social relationships, constructing personal and group memories, self-presentation, and self-expression.…”

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“…Academic institutions can exploit social media for marketing and branding, as well as for teaching and learning (Moran, Seaman & Tinti-Kane, 2011;Salomon, 2013), and to engage with students (Hansen, Nowlan, & Winter, 2012;Salomon, 2013). Although most US and UK universities have Twitter accounts (Parr, 2014), image-based social media services, such as Instagram, are particularly popular at the moment due to the proliferation of mobile phone photography (McNely, 2012;Rainie, Brenner, & Purcell, 2012;Vong, 2012;Ibrahim, 2015); and the 'rise of the visual web' (comScore, 2013). It is therefore logical for universities to have a presence on popular image-based social media services such as Instagram. does so from a teaching and learning perspective (e.g., Moran, Seaman & Tinti-Kane, 2011;Salomon, 2013) rather than investigating its use for marketing.…”

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An investigation of the online presence of UK universities on Instagram

Stuart¹,

Thelwall

2017

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An investigation of the online presence of UK universities on Instagram Purpose-Rising tuition fees and a growing importance on league tables has meant that university branding is becoming more of a necessity to attract prospective staff, students, and funding. Whilst university websites are an important branding tool, academic institutions are also beginning to exploit social media. Image-based social media services such as Instagram are particularly popular at the moment. It is therefore logical for universities to have a presence on popular image-based social media services such as Instagram. This paper investigates the online presence of UK universities on Instagram in an initial investigation of use. Design/Methodology/Approach-This study utilizes webometric data collection, and content analysis methodology. Findings-The results indicate that at the time of data analysis for this investigation (Spring, 2015), UK universities had a limited presence on Instagram for general university accounts, with only 51 out of 128 institutions having an account. The most common types of images posted were humanizing (31.0%), showcasing (28.8%), and orienting (14.3%). Orienting images were more likely to receive likes than other image types, and crowdsourcing images were more likely to receive comments. Originality/Value-This paper gives a valuable insight into the image posting practices of UK universities on Instagram. The findings are of value to heads of marketing, online content creators, social media campaign managers, and anyone who is responsible for the marketing, branding, and promoting of a university's services. Keywords-Social media; Instagram; images; universities; content analysis. Paper Type-Research paper. This study is an initial investigation of official UK university Instagram accounts. It considers how UK universities use Instagram, how the site can help to engage with current and prospective students, and which factors indicate a successful Instagram presence. Literature review Universities online An online presence for marketing and branding products and services is important for businesses (Kiang, Raghu & Shang, 2000) and for UK universities (Roper & Davies, 2007) due to the need to compete to attract staff, students, and funding (Stamp, 2004), and to present a corporate identity (Opoku, Abratt, and Pitt, 2006). The text and images that appear on a university website may often be the first and only institutional impression that a prospective student comes into contact with, and prospective students use websites to differentiate between offerings in a crowded higher education marketplace (Saichaie and Morphew, 2014). Despite this, there is little academic literature on university branding programmes (Chapelo, 2011). In an examination of 107 U.S. colleges and universities, Klassen and Stizman (2000) found that while some colleges and universities have built potentially useful web sites, many are failing to use the web effectively. Social media is now part of an organization's online presence, with most...

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“…Due to this popularity, in recent years there has been almost an avalanche of growth in the number of researchers and studies aimed at a thorough analysis of this cultural phenomenon . Currently available works record the gender, age, and other quantitative‐statistical specifics of the selfie; they note the narcissistic tendency of fans to take photographs of themselves (Fox & Rooney, ; Ibrahim, ; Sorokowski, Sorokowska, Oleszkiewicza, et al, ); they consider the selfie as an instrument of self‐representation, communication, and even the commodification of the self in virtual space (Gye, ; Ibrahim, , ; Rettberg, ; Warfield, ).…”

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The selfie and the intolerable gaze of the Other

Uzlaner

2017

Appl Psychoanal Studies

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This essay investigates the phenomenon of the selfie. The author is interested in what this phenomenon is able to say about the human subject and its constitution. Jacques Lacan's theory of the subject is used as a fulcrum to investigate, in particular, his reflections on the gaze and the role it plays in the process of constituting human subjectivity. The author takes one specific “mirror selfie” and consistently examines various aspects of the gaze in relation to it: the gaze as it constitutes the identity of the subject; the ideological dimension of the gaze and “ideological visual interpellation”; the gaze as the object‐cause of desire; the unbearable inevitability of the gaze; and the monstrous Real dimension of the gaze. The author concludes that new technology, in particular, the new possibilities for self‐representation they provide, do not distort the nature of man, but on the contrary only more clearly reveal it.

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Instagramming life: banal imaging and the poetics of the everyday

Cited by 76 publications

References 17 publications

Cancer narratives on social media as ‘small stories’

Cancer narratives on social media as ‘small stories’

An investigation of the online presence of UK universities on Instagram

The selfie and the intolerable gaze of the Other

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