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Photo-Sharing: �The Everyday Image�

Image via Ian Britton �

By: Katherine Kopiak

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 �

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.”�

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.” �

But why is the trend so popular? Why do people love to share photos of small, fleeting moments?�

Images via Katherine Kopiak �

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.”�

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. �


Or, by uploading a picture of one spending time with their pet, someone may be showing their love for that kind of animal.�


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.” �

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


Several pictures from one’s Instagram library, however, can say a lot about a person. �

Images via Katherine Kopiak �

There has been much controversial feedback on the subject of frequent photo-uploading and sharing.�

Image via Mark Turnauckas�

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.”�

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.”�

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?”�

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.”�

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&tplaman �Text Source: Ekaterina Walter, “The Rise of Visual Social Media”�

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.”

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.�


Text source: Thomas Olsson et al. “User needs and design guidelines for mobile services for sharing digital life memories.”�

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 Brown �Text source: Thomas Olsson et al. “User needs and design guidelines for mobile services for sharing digital life memories.”�

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.�

Text Sources (Works Cited) Arthur, Charles. “Google Glass: Is It a Threat to Our Privacy?” The Guardian. N.p., 6 Mar. 2013. Web. 17 May 2013. <http://www.gaurdian.co.uk/tehnology/2013/mar/06/google-glass-threat-to-our-privacy>. �

Besmer, Andrew, and Heather Richter Lipford. “Moving beyond untagging: photo privacy in a tagged world.” Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems. ACM, 2010. <http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?is=1753560. �

Davis, Marc et al. “The social uses of personal photography: methods for projecting future imaging applications.” University of California, Berkeley, Working Papers 3 (2004): 2005. <http://people.ischool.berkely.edu/~vanhouse/photo_project/pubs/vanhouse_et_al2004b.pdf>.�

McCune, Zachary. Consumer Production in Social Media Networks: A case Study of the “Instagram” Iphone App. Thams2thayer.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 May 2013. <http://thames2thayer.com/blog/wp-content/uplaods/2011/06/McCune_Instagram_Dissertation_Draft.pdf>.�

Murray, S. “Digital Images, Photo-Sharing, and Our Shifting Notions of Everday Aesthetics.” Journal of Visual Culture 7.2 (2008): 147-63. Pdf.�

Olsson, Thomas, Hannu Soronen, and Kaisa Vaananen-Vainio-Mattila. “User needs and design guidelines for mobile services for sharing digital life memories.” Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services. ACM, 2008. <http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1409270>. �

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/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=6461362>.�

Van House, Nancy A. “Collocated Photo Sharing, Story-telling, and the Performance of Self.” International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 67.12 (2009): 1073-086. ScienceDirect.com. Web. 17 May 2013. <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1071581909001256>.�

Walter, Ekaterina. “The Rise of Visual Social Media.” FastCmpany 28 Aug. 2012: n. pag. Web. 17 May 2013. <http:www.fastcompany.com/3000794/rise-visual-social-media>.�

Winget, Megan. “User-defined classification on the online photo sharing site Flickr…or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the million typing monkeys.” Advances in Classification Research Online 17.1 (2006): 1-16 <http://journals.lib.washington.edu/index.php/acro/article/view/12496>.�

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