The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media by Jurgenson, Nathan
The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media by Jurgenson, Nathan

The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media

"Mr. Jurgenson makes a first sortie toward a new understanding of the photograph, wherein artistry or documentary...
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Author: Nathan Jurgenson
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The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media by Jurgenson, Nathan

The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media

$44.78
The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media by Jurgenson, Nathan

The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media

$44.78
Author: Nathan Jurgenson
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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"Mr. Jurgenson makes a first sortie toward a new understanding of the photograph, wherein artistry or documentary intent have given way to communication and circulation. Like Susan Sontag's On Photography, to which it self-consciously responds, The Social Photo is slim, hard-bitten and picture-free." - New York Times

A set of bold theoretical reflections on how the social photo has remade our world.

With the rise of the smart phone and social media, cameras have become ubiquitous, infiltrating nearly every aspect of social life. The glowing camera screen is the lens through which many of us seek to communicate our experience. But our thinking about photography has been slow to catch-up; this major fixture of everyday life is still often treated in the terms of art or journalism.

In The Social Photo, social theorist Nathan Jurgenson develops bold new ways of understanding photography in the age of social media and the new kinds of images that have emerged: the selfie, the faux-vintage photo, the self-destructing image, the food photo. Jurgenson shows how these devices and platforms have remade the world and our understanding of ourselves within it.

Author: Nathan Jurgenson
Publisher: Verso
Published: 07/21/2020
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781786635440

About the Author
Nathan Jurgenson is a social media theorist. He is co-founder and co-chair of the annual Theorizing the Web conference, founder and editor in chief of Real Life magazine, editor emeritus at The New Inquiry, and a sociologist at Snap Inc. His work, which appears in academic journals and popular outlets, centers on a critique of digital dualism, a phrase he coined to describe the false belief that the internet is a separate virtual sphere or cyber space. Instead, Nathan approaches digitality as embodied, material, and real.


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