Bente Jensen, Offene Archive 2.2,

1. Bente Jensen, Aalborg City Archives
and Aalborg University
Tekst
Instagram in the
Archives
Between
Acquisition
User involvement
and Outreach
Siegen 2015
TekstTekst

3. General reflections on social
photography
Cases
Conclusion
Perspective

4. Istanbul, Marseille, Oslo, everybody is doing it – swombies?

5. Auch in Siegen :)

6. Helsinki
Memory institutions as
archives and museums
can choose to ignore
smart phone
photography
or they can grasp the
possibility and consider
mobile photography as
an opportunity to
involve new user
groups, to
communicate, and to be
a part of the
documentation of the
contemporary world

7. 1. memory,
narrative and
identity
2. creating and
maintaining
relationships
3. self-
representation
4. self-expression.
Personal photography today is primarily pursued for four
overlapping reasons:

8. Gymnasium class works with archives
and town history using Instagram #

9. From Pinterest

11. Statistics
150 Million
Monthly
Active Users
16 Billion
Photos
Shared in
total
1.2 Billion Likes
and 55
Million
Photos
shared every
day
Source: Instagram press page …

13. ¨¨
Germany : Universitätsarchiv Leipzig : Leipziguniversityarchives

14. Mobile devices make
it possible to
connect to and
comment on the
and interpret the
topography on the
spot.
The relation between
archives and the
user is extracted
into the city- and
landscapes .

15. #archive20
#christmasinaalborg
#archivalsummer
Examples of tags
#myaalborg
#
#onthisday
#archiveshelfie

19. #juliaalborg15

20. Aalborg City Archives: #myaalborg –
focus on Life in town

22. Instawalk with Instagramers Aalborg in the empty Art Museum; Kunsten,
facilitated by the City Archives (photo: Klaus Holm Neve).

23. Conclusion:
Experimental zone
Aesthetics and technology
New networks
Which has led to a new Nordic funded project->

24. The nightmare of the archivist : Snapchat

25. Project blog: collectingsocialphoto.nordiskamuseet.se