This powerpoint is all about the frequent uploading of the everyday image.

1. Photo-Sharing:
The Everyday Image
Image via Ian Britton
By:
Katherine
Kopiak

2. Today, millions of fleeting-moment/experience photos are
uploaded to the World Wide Web on a daily basis through
sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Flickr and Apps like
Instagram.
Image via Katherine Kopiak

3. The trend of sharing everyday images marks a shift from
capturing and displaying rarefied moments with friends or
family in person to capturing the immediate, rather fleeting
discoveries and moments and sharing them with a virtual
world online.
Engaging with the everyday image has become “a more alive, immediate,
and often transitory practice” –S. Murray
Image via Moyan Brenn
Text source (for both text boxes): S. Murray,
“Digital Images, Photo-Sharing, and Our
Shifting Notions of Everyday Aesthetics.”

4. The transition from film to digital and the introduction of small, high-quality
digital cameras and camera-phones has made the display and sharing of
digital images with the world at not only possible but also very easy.
Image via Katherine Kopiak
Text source: Nancy A. Van House, “Collocated Photo
Sharing, Story-telling, and the Performance of Self.”

5. But why is the trend so popular? Why do people love
to share photos of small, fleeting moments?
Images via Katherine Kopiak

6. For one thing, sharing one’s everyday pictures has been considered a
strong form of both self-expression and self-presentation, for by doing so,
one is showing others what kind of person they are.
Image via Scott Cawley
Text source: Marc Davis et al. “The social uses of
personal photography: methods for projecting
future imaging applications.”

7. For instance, by sharing a picture of one’s dinner at a restaurant, one
is perhaps showing their peers or viewers that they like going out
for dinner or that they are passionate about food.
Image via Katherine Kopiak

8. Or, by uploading a picture of one spending time with their pet,
someone may be showing their love for that kind of animal.
Image via Katherine Kopiak

9. All of these instances, though many scholars have deemed them
insignificant, are all important micro-stories about someone that
eventually build up to “represent data that we can then assemble
into mega-stories about our lives” –Malcolm Slaney and Jain Ramesh
Image via H is for Home
Text Source: Malcolm Slaney and
Jain Ramesh, “Micro Stories and
Mega Stories.”

10. Take Instagram, for instance. One single photo taken from someone’s
Instagram account might not say very much about them at all.
Image via Katherine Kopiak

11. Several pictures from one’s Instagram library, however, can say a lot about a person.
Images via
Katherine
Kopiak

12. There has been much controversial feedback on the
subject of frequent photo-uploading and sharing.
Image via Mark Turnauckas

13. For instance, it has been said that with the new photo-sharing trend
there comes a “sadness and a longing in the relationship to memory
and history that theorists such as Barthes ascribe to traditional
photography that is not altogether present in the social construction
of popular digital photography and its communities.” –S. Murray
“Many feel that such images “lack the traces of the material past
that were so much a part of traditional photography” –S. Murray
Image
via
Ludie
Cochrane
Text source: S. Murray, “Digital Images, Photo-
Sharing, and Our Shifting Notions of Everyday
Aesthetics.”

14. For instance, “photos on Facebook profiles have been used by
employers and law enforcement to investigate the behaviour of
individuals” –Andrew Besmar and Heather Richter Lipford
Image via Bala Sivakumar
Privacy has also been a large
concern. People are worried
that since photos collections
online show so much about
someone’s life, they could be
used for unintended purposes.
Text source (for both text boxes): Andrew Besmer and Heather Richter
Lipford, “Moving beyond untagging: photo privacy in a tagged world.”

15. Furthermore, the introduction of Google Glasses, that can take
pictures with a simple command, are only increasing privacy concerns.
“How will we behave in groups when the distraction of the internet
is only an eye movement away?” –Charles Arthur
Image via M.A. Cabrera Luengo
Text source: Charles Arthur, “Google Glass:
is it a threat to our privacy?”

16. However, on the other hand, several scholars have embraced the new photo trend.
For instance, it has been said that sites like Flickr that have brought millions
together by processes such as photo tagging have provided “a workable solution for
content organization, use and exploration for many Internet users.”-Megan Winget
Image via Heidi Hoopes
Text source: Megan Winget, “User-defined classification on the online photo
sharing site Flickr…or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the million
typing monkeys.”

17. Companies are also benefitting
significantly from visual social
networking, for “brands can use visual
content on their social media to increase
engagement and inspire sharing and viral
marketing [and…] brands that can rock
visual media will find themselves market
leaders” -Ekaterina Walter
Image via j&tplamanText Source: Ekaterina Walter, “The Rise
of Visual Social Media”

18. Most importantly, people enjoy sharing photos as frequently as they do. It has
been proven through research that people share photos for some of the following
reasons: the joys of sharing with others; the thrill of responses from others; the
chance to see through the eyes of others; the therapeutic feelings of healing; and
the fun of getting creative.
Image via Adam Fagen
Text
source:
Zachary
McCune,
“Consumer
ProducAon
in
Social
Media
Networks:
A
Case
Study
of
the
‘Instagram’
Iphone
App.”

19. The photo-content shared online contains items that are very valuable
to the users that share them and “people appreciate recollection of
the past[, present and immediate] events and certain milestones of
their lives”-Thomas Olsson et al.
Image via Katherine Kopiak
Text source: Thomas
Olsson et al. “User
needs and design
guidelines for mobile
services for sharing
digital life memories.”

20. Ultimately, recording personal moments and memories not only strengthens
ties and social bonds but is a universal, fundamentally human phenomenon
that people enjoy participating in.
Image via Jimmy BrownText source: Thomas Olsson et al. “User needs and design
guidelines for mobile services for sharing digital life memories.”

21. Image Credits
• All Images (apart from my own –
Katherine Kopiak) are either licensed
under the Creative Commons Non-
Commercial agreement or the Creative
Commons Share-Alike agreement (or
both) and sourced from Flickr.

22. Text
Sources
(Works
Cited)
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23. Text
Sources
(Work
Cited)
ConAnued
Slaney, Malcolm, and Jain Ramesh. “Micro Stories and Mega Stories.” MultiMedia, IEEE 20.1
(2013).: 86-90. IEEE Digital Explore. Web. 17 May 2013. <http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/
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