How photography and social media shape meaning

Photography and social media involves digital photos created by users on technologies that help virtual communities and networks create, share, and gather content. The lessons answer how photographs gain meaning through the choices people make about their presentation. They build an understanding of how images take on meaning in social settings.

2 articles, 1 book · about 1 hr 42 min of reading and viewing

The reading path

1. Read
   

   photography and social media · Wikipedia · 60+ min read

   A 2018 Common Sense Media survey of American teens ages 13 to 17 about social media photos found that 45% said likes are at least somewhat important, and 26% at least somewhat agreed that they feel bad about themselves if nobody responds to their photos. Social media platforms increasingly overlapped as they adapted features beyond their original scope. X expanded from text-based microblogging to photo sharing, video sharing, and a media studio for business users, after YouTube's Creator Studio.

2. Read
   

   Photography and social media: Three perspectives - 1854 Photography · British Journal of Photography · 6 min read

   On social media, photographers choose which work to share and how to organize and caption it, without a curator or editor. Unlike gallery or print publication, their work on these platforms reaches a much larger audience.

3. Book
   

   Ways of Seeing · Bookshop.org

   Ways of Seeing is a 1972 television series of 30-minute films created chiefly by writer John Berger and producer Mike Dibb. It was broadcast on BBC Two in January 1972 and adapted into a book of the same name.

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