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Pixelating Reality: How Smartphones Shift Now @SXSW
The document discusses the impact of smartphones and mobile photography on personal experiences and social interactions, highlighting changes in how individuals engage with public spaces and memories. It points to a cultural shift where photography has become a prevalent form of self-expression and identity formation, often tied to location and context. The conversation invites rethinking the roles and designs of mobile devices in social settings to foster new forms of engagement and storytelling.
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- 1. PIXELATING REALITY Dr. Gigi Johnson @gigijohnson @maremel HowSmartphones Shift NOW …and HERE #sxsw #NotHereNow
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- 10. NOT PRIVACY QUESTION (HERE) PUBLICSPACE ENGAGEMENT AND INTERACTION
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- 12. Flickr/Steppschuh cc 2.0 Mobile: ARemote Control for Our Life
- 13. MOBILE: EXTENSION OFSELF OR BRAIN Memory extender Supplement or substitute Flickr/Steve Rainwater cc 2.0
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- 15. Me Device Location/Context CONTEXT AND MENTAL TIMETRAVEL Near Future Near Past
- 17. Evidence for unseen Others •notpresent/HERE but Near FUTURE Sensory engagement with device content •Not present but HERE from near PAST •ElseWHERE and ElseWHEN 2 FACTORS: PHOTOGRAPHY AS PERFORMANCE & SENSORY CO-ATTENTION/PRESENCE
- 18. “Recently, photography has becomealmost as widely practiced an amusement as sex and dancing…” -- Susan Sontag, 1977 Not New…
- 19. BROWNIE CAMERA: 1900 CosmopolitanMagazine June 1900
- 20. MOBILE IDEATION: 1999 Mobile communications device witha camera Abstract The invention pertains to a mobile communications device with a camera, comprising a microphone (5), loudspeaker, display, keyp
- 21. 2003: WORRIED ABOUTPRINTING Digital Camera Ownership 20% of US Households 45% of US Internet HH 82% of digital camera users print photos at home (InfoTrends Research Group)
- 22. 2011-2013: SHIFT TOMOBILE CAMERAS • 2007: 100 million peak in digital cameras • 2012: 98 million • 2013: 30% drop to 63 million • 2014: 20% drop forecast • (Source: CIPA) 2013: est. 32% increase in smartphone sales (source: IDC)
- 23. WE SHARE...A LOT •Facebook:250 billion photos • 350 million uploads a day •Flickr: 8 billion photos •Instagram: 16 billion photos •Tumblr: 50 billion posts
- 24. SOCIAL ROLES OFPERSONAL PHOTOS Remembering &Recall Communication & Identity Self- Presentation Family Life Negotiation Sharing Experiences vs. Objects Reconnect (a la postcards) Identity Formation
- 25. EXPERIENCE AS EVIDENCE Overheardat the Los Angeles Disney Concert Hall when the usher asked the patron to not take a picture: “How can I show people that I am here if I don’t have a picture?”
- 26. •Saving without Context? •Taggingpassively with dates and geotags? Saving Now for Later?
- 27. SELFIES AS MULTICULTURALSOCIAL NORMS Dec. 2013, Mandela Funeral, Getty Images, NY Daily News
- 28. March 2014, twitter.com/theellenshowpic.twitter.com/C9U5NOtGap
- 30. PHIL’S PHOTO • Havephone extension cord
- 34. HOW DO YOUSEE LOCATIONS EMBRACING OR ENGAGING WITH MOBILE PHOTOGRAPHY?
- 38. SOCIAL CONSUMPTION BEFORE ....VS.NOW PUBLIC & FRAGMENTED Flickr/kballard cc 2.0
- 39. FoMO FEAR OF MISSINGOUT …making the wrong decision on how to use our time...
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- 47. HOW DO YOUSEE PERSONAL SCREENS USED IN SOCIAL SETTINGS?
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- 49. "See, you can'teven sing because you're too busy taping!" Beyonce told a fan in July. "I'm right in your face baby, You gotta seize this moment baby! Put that damn camera down!“ -- USA Today, 2013
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- 65. HOW DO WEDESIGN FOR LIVE SPACES? Implied Other Twitterwalls – awkward, pschophantic Virtual attendance Signage – providing context, implied metadata
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- 67. Context Me Device Collaboration Location/Context RETHINK CONTEXT: • RETHINKROLES • RETHINK FLOWS • DESIGN FOR COLLABORATORS
- 68. CAN WE FOLDTIME? •Bring our past contexts and stories • History Pin • History Harvest • Findery •Leave our current stories for future collaborators
- 69. HOW CAN WERETHINK ROLES AND CONTEXT?
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- 73. FOR FURTHER CONVERSATION(S) GigiJohnson, EdD Maremel Institute @maremel @gigijohnson http://maremel.com
Editor's Notes
- #8 Bill Sanders
- #16 Chronesthesia (Tulving) or subjective timeReconnecting over devices?Bringing the experience to others?Separating from those they are with Live?
- #17 How are we Present if we are always checking in to other information and places? Are we shifting our energies to auto-documenting our activities through pictures and other actions to the detriment of the activity and connections that we are experiencing live?Photos outbound having a priority to live interactionSensory interruptions in local/socialFocus – closing off sensory input
- #18 Snapchat, Instagram, FlickrHow are we blowing up time and space through digital images and messages, blowing it up and turning it into shiftable bits of data so we are making different decisions with its Time and Place?
- #19 …which means that, like every mass art form, photography is not practiced by people as art. It is mainly a social rite, a defense against anxiety, and a tool of power.”
- #23 400 billion pictures globally 2013 - IDC
- #24 Instagram.com source: http://instagram.com/press/Facebook:Mashable, September 2013Flickr: Yahoo event, May 2013Tumblr: Yahoo event
- #25 Role of photography in personal livesRemembering - Stuhlmiller, 1996Identity – Barthes 1981Sontag 1973
- #26 Establishment of being digitally important -- whose camera is most important? Your camera is MORE important than MY live experience. Van Dijck 2008 – we are creating collaborative memories….
- #28 Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/president-obama-poses-funeral-selfie-article-1.1543188President Obama with Denmark's Prime Minister HelleThorning-Schmidt and Britain's David Cameron
- #39 Behavior previously tethered to desk and time at desk – moved to living room and to everywhere
- #40 StudyAnxietyForced comparisons of my life vs yoursSherry Turkle, Alone TogetherAlready a study in Computers in Human Behavior, Przybylski et al. 2013
- #44 Virtuix Omni with Oculus Rift
- #55 Victoria and Albert Museum
- #59 Decrease in workplace spaceDisbursed working
- #66 Implied OtherTwitterwalls – awkwards, pschophanticVirtual attendanceSignage – providing context, implied metadata
- #67 Story of University Negotiations
- #68 Knowledge Flows vs. Knowledge Stores