Mobile-Media Photography: New Modes of Engagement

Svabo, Connie; Shanks, Michael

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“…The rate of penetration of mobile phones even in rural parts of the so-called developing states is impressive: 21 million smartphones are currently in use in Nigeria alone (Adepetun 2018). By the end of 2011, the estimated figure was between 1 billion and 5 billion globally (Hand 2012; Shanks and Svabo 2014). The mobile phone camera may seem to be an extra technological advantage in addition to the telephony services for which the machine was originally designed.…”

Section: The Constituent Elements Of Ubiquitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The wide distribution of digital camera devices allows more people than ever to traverse, experience and participate in places where they find themselves, and to freeze fleeting moments through photography (Daisuke and Ito 2003; Hand 2012; Pink 2011; Shanks and Svabo 2014). In some instances, the photographs that result from spatial-visual practices have a strong political impact through their composition, the context of their production and their circulation.…”

Section: The Constituent Elements Of Ubiquitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…But the emergence of digital photography soon revealed that there was more to the democratization of visual production than Kodak could achieve with the snapshot and the popular photography it facilitated. In fact, digital cameras led to the decline of Kodak film photography, with the company filing for bankruptcy in 2012 (Shanks and Svabo 2014).…”

Section: The Constituent Elements Of Ubiquitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Besides providing telephony services, mobile phone technology in Nigeria (as elsewhere) became the gateway to internet access. Hence, to possess a mobile phone is to ‘carry a phone-cum-camera-cum-computer’ that is linked to cyberspace (Shanks and Svabo 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Many of the eyewitness photographic reports of the 2015 election were circulated on Twitter. Affirming Shanks and Svabo's (2014) assertion that the social media site is a place ‘to find first-hand news directly from the event as it happens’, Vanguard newspaper retrieved a number of the photographs and published them on 11 April 2015. The subjects covered included thuggery, the carting away of ballot boxes, and low voter turnout in some parts of the country (Alade 2015).…”

Section: The Image As Witnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Challenging the frivolities of power: the ubiquitous camera and Nigerian political elites

Agbo¹

2019

Africa

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The last decade has witnessed the ubiquitous presence of camera devices, from conventional cameras to communication gadgets (such as mobile phones, iPads and tablets), built with the capacity to produce, edit, disseminate and interact through photographs. In this article, I analyse visual materials circulated on Facebook, YouTube and Nairaland (a locally popular social-networking website used by Nigerians) to demonstrate how the ubiquity of the camera, its overt and surreptitious use, and the transformation and circulation of the resulting photographs constitute political acts in a postcolonial African context. The camera's ubiquity encompasses the increasing availability of photographic devices, but also the growing, and politically charged, inclination to put them to use, framing the world through which their users move. The production and dissemination of the resulting photograph gives it the status of an eyewitness account, amidst contestations that heighten its force as political articulation. Lastly, the ubiquitous camera is a means through which the public observes, polices and exposes the duplicity of state functionaries. The article contributes to an understanding of the ways in which digital infrastructure allows public access to the political undertaking of photography.

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Section: The Constituent Elements Of Ubiquitymentioning

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Section: The Constituent Elements Of Ubiquitymentioning

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Challenging the frivolities of power: the ubiquitous camera and Nigerian political elites

Agbo¹

2019

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The Bodily Mode of the Selfie

Kim

2021

Advances in Information and Communication Research

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Exploring the Life Cycle of Smartphone Images from Camera Rolls to Social Media Platforms

Thomson¹

2021

Visual Communication Quarterly

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Recent critiques contend "Far too much current writing on photography-even in pieces about social media and photography-fixate on professional photographers," so this piece seeks to buck that trend by focusing on ordinary smartphone owners and how they use their mobile devices to capture or create, stylize, and represent their worlds. More specifically, this study examines the "life cycle" of images from capture or creation on the device to potential editing and sharing on social media. It does so through a multi-method, qualitative approach that blends an examination of the users' camera rolls and images they post to social media platforms with indepth interviews to contexualize and explain their practices. The results indicate that the ordinary individuals in this sample created vastly more images than they shared and that they used their mobile devices chiefly to preserve memories, document new or unusual experiences, preserve inspiration, provide accountability or evidence, and to create visual media as a stand-in for verbal communication. Of the images they did share, ones with common reference points were most likely to be distributed, followed by ones showing new, rare or unusual experiences, ones that were unified or consistent with other images previously posted, and images that flattered the uploader.

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Mobile-Media Photography: New Modes of Engagement

Cited by 9 publications

References 1 publication

Challenging the frivolities of power: the ubiquitous camera and Nigerian political elites

Challenging the frivolities of power: the ubiquitous camera and Nigerian political elites

The Bodily Mode of the Selfie

Exploring the Life Cycle of Smartphone Images from Camera Rolls to Social Media Platforms

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