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What is Photoblogs

Chapter 56
Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication
Photoblogs are an extension of blogs (short for Web logs). Blogs are a form of journal on the Internet where short posts, often with links to articles on other blogs or Web sites, are posted in reverse chronological order, with the newest posts on top. Photoblogs extend this notion by being primarily focused on posting photographs rather than text comments. Many hobbyist and semiprofessional photobloggers use their photoblogs as a way to inspire themselves to regularly generate new content and to distribute their photographs to others. Photoblogs are a subset of more general photo sharing sites that allow digital images to uploaded and shared with others.
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Digital Photography
Eric T. Meyer (University of Oxford, UK)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 13
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-863-5.ch056
Abstract
Digital photography is a relatively new topic for scholarly study in the area of computer mediated communication. Photographic technologies were only first computerized in the 1990s, but have rapidly supplanted older film technologies for a majority of professional uses. Digital photography has not simply substituted silicon chips for film, however, but has brought about rapid changes throughout the photographic process as photography entered the realm of information technology. This chapter presents a typology for approaching the study of photography as a form of computer mediated communication, and then presents several examples illustrating the consequences digital photography has for amateurs and professionals. Examples include photojournalism, scientific photography, photography in the legal system, and personal photography. The chapter ends with a call for additional research into the social aspects of this ubiquitous form of computer mediated communication.
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Chapter 56
Digital Photography
Photoblogs are an extension of blogs (short for Web logs). Blogs are a form of journal on the Internet where short posts, often with links to articles on other blogs or Web sites, are posted in reverse chronological order, with the newest posts on top. Photoblogs extend this notion by being primarily focused on posting photographs rather than text comments. Many hobbyist and semiprofessional photobloggers use their photoblogs as a way to inspire themselves to regularly generate new content and to distribute their photographs to others. Photoblogs are a subset of more general photo sharing sites that allow digital images to uploaded and shared with others.
Published in Chapter: Digital Photography; From: Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication
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