Presentation 5: Ubiquitous photography and WEB 2.0 platform/ Dijck: The Culture of Connectivity (Annotation)

Without no doubt, digital age has changed and transformed the way how individuals use media. Due to such social networks as Flickr, Instagram and so on, perspectives of diverse people can be easily accessed by everyone. So the world is seen differently and many-sided. The point which was underlined by Dijck in the 'Culture of Connectivity' is that digital age has made possible and desirable construction of memories, which break boundaries between past and present as well as between members of various societies. Besides, digital gadgets/platforms help to express creativity and develop own aesthetics by using found materials on the Internet as a basis. 'Suns from flickr' which was produced By Umbrico in fact combines the points that i discussed as she used around 6,ooo photographs of sunsets, which were taken by random humans and published in Flickr. The author combined the images of similar natural scenes to make them look like pixels (her way of seeing is generated despite the fact other digital-captures were chosen for-granted) and show 1 picture (look like painting). Such method of works let ordinary person to show its personality by being special and creative.Moreover, connection with others is built as search in Flick was applied.

Penelope Umbrico, Suns from Flickr, 2009

Reference:

Dijck, J. (2010). Flickr and the culture of connectivity: SHARING views, experiences, memories. Memory Studies, 4(4), pp.401-415.