Creating Drama Out of the Banalities of Everyday Life

Intimate Visual Co-Presence by Mizuko Ito. Creating Drama Out of the Banalities of Everyday Life.

Photo sharing via handheld devices has unique limitations and affordances that differ from paper-based sharing and PC-based archive and moblog sites.

Based on studies of camphone use in Japan, this paper suggests an emergent visual sharing modality that is uniquely suited to the handheld space. Intimate visual copresence involves the sharing of an ongoing stream of viewpointspecific photos with a handful of close friends or with an intimate other. The focus is on co-presence and viewpoint sharing rather than communication, publication, or archiving."

reblogged from networked performance.

emily | 4:47 PM | Moblogs / Photoblogs / Videoblogs |
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