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From Snapshots to Social Media - The Changing Picture of Domestic Photography

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In this chapter, we review the gradual adoption of digital photographic technologies. The pattern here is revealed by a variety of empirical studies in the field of human–computer interaction, examining reactions to elements of the digital infrastructure as they were introduced. The review begins by considering home ‘development’ of digital photos by means of digital cameras and either home printers or printing services. It then steps through the introduction of other technologies, such as the home archive, camera phones, Web sites, and the plethora of printed and screen-based options for offline photo sharing. Early concerns about the photographic quality of digital prints are shown to have given way to interest in the properties of immediate and local screen-based sharing of images, and a strong desire by consumers to share images remotely over the Internet. The introduction of camera phones as a new category of camera is shown to be leading to more spontaneous, playful, and pragmatic uses of images as visual jokes, gestures, and reminders. These images now sit alongside more conventional snapshots of high points and holidays in growing home multimedia archives, which generally prove difficult to browse and enjoy. The conclusion from our review is that the value of photographs for memory, communication, and identity has not changed but the relative importance of these values has shifted, in a move away from memory and toward communication and identity.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Chalfen 1987; Musello 1979.

  2. 2.

    Lister 1995.

  3. 3.

    Slater 1995.

  4. 4.

    Ibid., p. 131.

  5. 5.

    Ibid., p. 139.

  6. 6.

    Ibid., p. 145.

  7. 7.

    Kuchinsky et al. 1999.

  8. 8.

    Mills et al. 2000.

  9. 9.

    O’Conaill et al. 1994

  10. 10.

    Tang et al. 1994.

  11. 11.

    Frohlich and Daly-Jones 1995.

  12. 12.

    Whittaker et al. 1997.

  13. 13.

    Isaacs et al. 1997.

  14. 14.

    Frohlich et al. 2002.

  15. 15.

    Rodden and Wood 2003.

  16. 16.

    Schiano et al. 2002.

  17. 17.

    Isaacs et al. 2002a, b.

  18. 18.

    Johansen 1988.

  19. 19.

    Kirk et al. 2006.

  20. 20.

    Whittaker et al. 2010.

  21. 21.

    Bentley et al. 2006.

  22. 22.

    Leong et al. 2005; Leong et al. 2008.

  23. 23.

    Hilliges and Kirk 2009.

  24. 24.

    Frohlich et al. 2011.

  25. 25.

    Mäkelä et al. 2000.

  26. 26.

    Hofmeester 1999.

  27. 27.

    Seppo Kari quoted in Staal 1999, p. 65.

  28. 28.

    Hofmeester Ibid., p. 10.

  29. 29.

    Koskinen et al. 2002.

  30. 30.

    Koskinen 2007.

  31. 31.

    Koskinen 2005.

  32. 32.

    Frohlich 2004.

  33. 33.

    Koskinen, 2010, personal communication.

  34. 34.

    Okabe and Ito 2003.

  35. 35.

    Kindberg et al. 2005.

  36. 36.

    Kirk et al. 2007.

  37. 37.

    Lehmuskallio and Sarvas 2008.

  38. 38.

    See again Frohlich 2004.

  39. 39.

    Sarvas et al. 2004b.

  40. 40.

    Davis et al. 2005, and the predecessor MMM1 (Sarvas et al. 2004a).

  41. 41.

    Sarvas et al. 2005.

  42. 42.

    Van House et al. 2005.

  43. 43.

    Van House and Ames 2010 (unpublished work).

  44. 44.

    Miller and Edwards 2007.

  45. 45.

    TechCrunch 2009.

  46. 46.

    Van House 2007.

  47. 47.

    Ames et al. 2010.

  48. 48.

    Ames and Naaman 2007.

  49. 49.

    Ahern et al. 2007; Besmer and Lipford 2009.

  50. 50.

    Boyd and Ellison 2008.

  51. 51.

    Joinson 2008.

  52. 52.

    Lindley et al. 2009.

  53. 53.

    Van House 2009.

  54. 54.

    Durrant et al. 2009a.

  55. 55.

    Frohlich et al. 2002.

  56. 56.

    Frohlich 2004.

  57. 57.

    Edwards and Middleton 1986.

  58. 58.

    Crabtree et al. 2004.

  59. 59.

    Lindley and Monk 2006.

  60. 60.

    Van House 2009.

  61. 61.

    Lindley and Monk 2008.

  62. 62.

    Frohlich 2004.

  63. 63.

    Rogers and Lindley 2004.

  64. 64.

    Stelmaszewska et al. 2008.

  65. 65.

    Kun and Marsden 2007.

  66. 66.

    Balabanović et al. 2000.

  67. 67.

    Drazin and Frohlich 2007.

  68. 68.

    Swan and Taylor 2008.

  69. 69.

    O’Hara et al. 2004.

  70. 70.

    Kim and Zimmerman 2006.

  71. 71.

    Taylor et al. 2007.

  72. 72.

    Durrant et al. 2008; Durrant et al. 2009.

  73. 73.

    Anderson 1994.

  74. 74.

    Norman 2009.

  75. 75.

    Shove et al. 2007.

  76. 76.

    Neustaedter and Fedorovskaya 2009b.

  77. 77.

    Anderson and Tushman 1990.

  78. 78.

    Van House 2009.

  79. 79.

    Van Dijck 2008.

  80. 80.

    Slater 1995.

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