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Report // Networked Media // Assignment 3

Declaration

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Blog Index

Week 9 Images

Week 9 Video

Week 10 Image

Week 10 Videos

Week 11 Images

Week 11 Video

Word Count

1096

Introduction

Throughout this report, I will explore and analyse the distribution methods available to users of the Instagram application. This will be achieved through the 9 posts of both video and photographic content that I have posted to my Instagram account over the past 3 weeks, and analyse the affordances and constraints of the methods I used.

Background

Distribution refers to getting the content further from the initially published audience.  During the era of legacy/analogue photography and videography, this would often be a vigorous and expensive process. With the example of cinema, movies would have to undergo the initial publishing state, getting companies and festivals to undertake preview screenings. From there, these films would be distributed to both cinema chains and locally owned theatres, for a wider release. This method of distribution has both affordances and constraints, but ultimately, was not very user-focused, and requires either wealth of copious free time and resources.

However, with regards to networked photography and videography,  this process of distribution has become a lot more personally viable. With smartphones facilitating a new era of photographic history (Palmer, D. 2014 pg. 245), operating with so much “ready-made content“, users are more than able to author, publish and distribute all on the one platform, and with the case of the course prompted software, all on the one application, Instagram. Distribution on Instagram can take different forms, such as through hashtagging, and external sharing through partnered applications like Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr.  All of this has the potential to increase the overall engagement and reception of a users content, something I experimented with throughout weeks 9-11 of Networked Media.

Evidence/What?

To investigate the prompt, I have uploaded 3 times a week over the span of 3 weeks to my Assignment 3 Instagram account ‘watch_the_door‘. These posts would vary from either two pictures and one video a week, or one picture and two videos a week. Before publishing this content to my account, I would broaden the possible reach of each video or photo by distributing further than the initial basic reach of my Instagram’s followers.

The first step would be to ‘geo-tag’ my content to the places they were captured. Palmer talks about his uncertainty of the purpose with the feature when analysing the potential of the iPhone back in 2014, but recognises it’s mainstream appeal in the foreseeable future (2014, pg. 250). Tagging the location of where your post was captured allows Instagram to recommend your content to users who have either done the same tag, engaged with content with a similar geo-tag location, or simply passed through that area whilst operating Instagram with their location detection on. The location tag of your is shown above the title on the post, and allows new users to engage with your content.

The most visible example of the distribution process on Instagram is hashtagging. Throughout my posts, I would end my title and description with a slew of terms, beginning with a #. A majority of these would be broad, examples being ‘#doors’ ‘#desaturated’ and ‘#melbourne’. These would group and filter my posts with various others with the same tag, allowing content to be grouped and distributed to a variety of other users who have either interacted with or published content that has the same hashtags. Furthermore, more content specific hashtags would be added to individual posts to target a more niche audience, such as with ‘#tram

The last way I distributed content posted to my Instagram was through external sharing. The Instagram application allows users to share with a variety of other connected or installed applications that are partnered with it. For both weeks 10 and 11, I used this feature to distribute those six posts across to both my personal Tumblr account and Twitter account. These would share the bulk of text attached to my posts, as well as either the visual content itself, or a link to it, depending on the platform.

Evaluation

The affordances of the location tagging on Instagram is the ease at which you can do it. Normand talks about how clear design in a product is key for user convenience, and that ‘sloppiness in design translates into confusion for users’ (Norman, D. 1999). Instagram both prompts and directs you to tag your location as you enter the publishing stage, and with your location services on, gives you options of where you are and where you were. This seamless integration is also non-intrusive in a clean post’s aesthetic. As stated before, the tag sits nicely above the title.  However, a constraint of feature is engagement opportunities. This is an often forgotten feature of Instagram, with people rarely tagging locations.

The strongest affordance of the hashtagging method of distribution is possible engagement opportunities. Throughout my posting experience for Assignment 3, the use of hashtags has boosted my views and likes tenfold, bringing in over half of my engagements and followers overall. It has allowed new users to find content that interests them, and allowed me to find new users with similar interests to me. A constraint of the hashtagging process is the clutter it creates. Whilst location tags were out of the way of the focal points of a post, hashtags need to be applied to the bulk text of an image,  ruining a minimalist aesthetic. Furthermore, the other constraint of this process is convenience. There is no way to save a selection of everyday hashtags, prompting direct manipulation over the convenience of command mode (Normand, D. 1998. pg. 184).

The affordances of external distribution through the Instagram application is convenience. The feature, once accounts are linked to your profile, is simple, tap the social media service you want to share to, and it will do it seamlessly. However, the constraints outway the affordances of this service, mainly in layout and conversion of design.  Twitter has the biggest errors, with Tumblr working, but not as it should and easily could. This creates an unfriendly and unappealing link that does not entice me to engage further with the content. This could easily be fixed with communication and coding between Instagram and these platforms.

Conclusion

A constraint of my report is the minimal comparison between legacy and network distribution. With a higher word count, I would have touched on the differences and similarities between the two eras of photography and videography, and what might come next.

To conclude, before this course, I never really thought about distribution within Instagram, especially not to the scale that I have for this assignment. Furthermore, while all major pathways to distribute on the platform have their share of constraints to counteract perfect mapping, Instagram still stands as a prominent pillar application when it comes to powerful distribution methods.

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References

Norman, D 1999, ‘Affordance, conventions and design (Part 2)’, Nielsen Norman Group, http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/affordance_conv.html

Norman, D 1998, The design of everyday things , Basic Book, New York (Sections: Preface vii-xv; Chapter one pp 1-13; Chapter 4 (constraints) pp 81-87; (computers) pp 177-186).

Palmer, D 2014 ‘Mobile Media Photography’, in The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media, (eds) Goggin G., Hjorth L., Routledge, New York pp. 249–55.

Instagram Week 3 – Video // Networked Media // Week 11

Video

This video was taken on the 5th or 6th floor of building 10 at RMIT University, with the door connecting the library entrance and common rooms to extra common rooms and classrooms.


Authoring 

This video was recorded around 4 meters away from the doorway that is framed above. Whilst roaming with the intention to find a glass doorway to film, I stumbled upon this walkway and readied the rear camera of my Samsung S9+ and the Instagram app to record a few seconds. I waited for people to not be walking through the main section (for a clear and naturally shadowed frame, as well as minimizing embarrassment) and captured the doorway. Unlike my previous videos, this series of moving images is not a clean cut, and has a slight millisecond cut around the start. This is because my finger slipped, and I only realised now!

I then proceeded to edit the video immediately after capturing, as I was in a rush for my next class. I used the thematic Inkwell filter, bringing its intensity down between 60 and 80 %. However, the footage looks more saturated compared to previous posts.

Publishing

After editing the image, I played around with vague and ambiguous titles, settling on “Divide”, based on the physical divide between the doorway in the foreground and the doorway in the background. This post was the 4th video uploaded to the Instagram account for my Assignment 3 and the 8th post overall.

This was not my first attempt to video the doorway. The first few attempts were very still, with only my shaky hands being noticeable movement. I then waited like a creep, for someone to walk around in the background, and then captured what we have above.

Furthermore, the image was location tagged at RMIT University before posting.

Distributing

The post followed the same 5-period separation between the title and the hashtags, which all followed the same, nuanced and simplified format of the previous posts. Consistently hashtagging #doors, #rmituniversity and #desaturated seems to gain traction beyond my limited follower group, attracting the engagement of 7 views and 8 likes (very confused by this).

This image was also shared to my external Twitter and Tumblr accounts, which retain the same hashtags. Again, as stated in previous posts, I am yet to see a significant influence from either of these platforms.

Instagram Week 3 – Pictures // Networked Media // Week 11

Picture 1

This picture was taken after leaving one of my media studio classes, on my way out to Swanston St to catch the trams. It is of the big motor operated doors that divide the outside courtyard area from buildings 10 and 12 of RMIT University

 

Picture 2

This image was captured near the elevators on the fourth floor of building 10, of the two big push and pull doors that nicely segment the areas between the access to other levels and the cafes.


Authoring 

The first image was taken whilst standing directly in the middle of the big motorised doors, which just happened to be opening at the time I strolled past this are of the university. I quickly opened up my Samsung S9+, opened Instagram and switched to my Assignment 3 account via the quick switch tab in the top left-hand corner of the profile bubble. From there, I tried to centre the door frame in the middle of the square dimensions Instagram provides, with breathing room for the light to seep into the frame. Just as I was about to snap a picture using my rear-facing camera on the capture tab of Instagram, a fellow passerby walked into frame. However, whilst I had feared this would have ruined the image, it actually worked out really well, and after editing the image with a 60 to 80 % saturated Inkwell filter, I feel like the product came out almost cinematic.

The second image is a lot less meaningful or interesting. Whilst waiting for the elevators, I turned to my left to see these two big physically operated glass doors, with a shopfront sign sticking out in the background. I was in need of a second image for the third batch of posts to the Instagram account, so I waited until the door was clear, and took the image using my Samsung S9+’s rear camera through the Instagram app. I was really happy with the composition of the shot, and after desaturating the photo with the Inkwell filter, it made the ‘cafe’ sign pop out like a beacon of light (which is pretty unreadable in the screen grab above)

Publishing

The first photo is titled more alongside the overarching theme of minimalism and simplicity, “Passage”. This felt fitting due to the huge overarching doorway allowing what is such a small being in comparison to pass through, felt very Lord of the Rings-esc. This was my 4th photo uploaded to this Instagram account and the 7th post overall.

The second photo follows a previous and less prominent trend of titling the works by their literal features, such as the previously posted “Reflective Slide”. In this case, the post is titled ‘Cafe’, due to the sneaky inclusion of the RMIT coffee house sign. This was the 5th image uploaded to the ‘watch_the_doors’ account, and the 9th and most recent post at the time of writing.

Both of these images were my first choices for uploads once they inspired me, and only took one take. Furthermore, they were both tagged at RMIT University before posting.

Distributing

Both images use the same 5 period spacing between their titles and hashtags. Furthermore, both posts use almost identical hashtags to distribute the post further than my 4 followers, with the essential #doors, #city and #melbourne. The first post does include a new hashtag, #open, due to its wide-open door frame.

The first picture has 7 likes, and the second one has 6. This is a drop in engagement compared to my previous video and image content. Both images and hashtags were externally shared to my  Twitter and Tumblr accounts.

Instagram Week 2 – Videos // Networked Media // Week 10

Video 1

This was taken after leaving my Tuesday 8:30 am class for Networked Media, whilst travelling to the Swanston St library to do some editing. This is the burrito shop in the courtyard area.

Video 2

This was taken later that day when I was leaving the library to go to study outside and eat some lunch. This is the revolving doors near that same burrito shop in the courtyard.


Authoring

To take the first video, I stood roughly about a meter away from the entrance of the burrito store (which was barely open, and people were quite confused by my presence). I walked a few steps forward to trigger the motion sensors of the door, waited until the door was fully opened and stepped back and recorded as the door closed fully. My hands are a bit shaky, but I tried to keep the door frame around the edges of the square Instagram format my Samsung S9+’s rear camera gave me whilst using the applications camera feature, as with all other posts.

In the second video, the rotating door rotates without a prompt from a human, so I stood about 2 meters away from it, allowing to capture the entrance and exit in the full frame dimensions the application gave to me. I am really happy with this framing, and personally think it looks the best in the still thumbnail version you see before the video autoplays, just like the video before it.

Both videos are edited the same way, with the Inkwell filter being reduced to around 60-80 % to give the moving images a desaturated effect. Furthermore, I kept the original audio from both clips. From there, they are almost ready to post.

Publishing

The first video takes a different approach to giving a title, less literal. “Slow It Down” felt like a more poetic name, reflecting the slow-moving door and how we should all stop and appreciate the little things in life. This was the second video posted to this Instagram and the fourth post overall.

The second video is titled “In Rotation”, which is the name of a rap song by Jay Rock, but also, what the door does in the video, spinning around endlessly in a 360-degree rotation.  This is the third video posted to my Assignment 3 Instagram, and the sixth post overall

Both were location tagged at RMIT University before uploading.

Distributing

For the first video, I used the same spacing format and hashtagged it with the classic #doors and #melbourne, and started hashtagging the uni with #rmituniversity. This post, at the time of writing, received 11 views and 11 likes, the most on this account to date, with one nice (and real) comment.

The second post uses the same hashtags and spacing as previously mentioned, but includes some context-specific ones such as #loop to try and bring in new users to engage. However, this is my lowest engagement to date, with the post having only 9 views and 6 likes as of writing this.

Both videos were shared to my personal Twitter and Tumblr accounts, which carries over all hashtags for even more external reach. As of yet, I am unable to see any direct overlap between the application’s users.

Instagram Week 2 – Picture // Networked Media // Week 10

Picture

This picture was inspired by walking from one of my classes to the library, where I noticed that the two sliding doors that create an airlock of sorts between building 12 and 10 of RMIT University looked ‘cool’.


Authoring

To capture this image, I rushed through both doorways from one side to the other, and inconveniently stood in the centre of the walkway. I waited for the first door (pictured in the back) to be almost closed as the door I stood in front of (pictured at the front) started to close.  I used my Samsung S9+’s rear-facing camera to capture the moment using the photo tool on Instagram, making the process seamless. From there, I did the usual, adjusted the Inkwell filter to somewhere around 60 and 80 %, giving it a desaturated look, and was almost ready to post.

Publishing 

As with all my other posts to this Instagram account, I went with a minimalist and possibly ‘douchey’ title, “One Door Opens, One Door Closes”, which I meant literally, but I’m more than happy to have people read into it. Furthermore, I spaced the hashtags out with 5 periods. This is my third picture uploaded to the account, but my fifth post overall. I realised that the “Picture, Video, Picture” grid format wasn’t going to work aesthetically unless I went “Video, Picture, Video” too.

I had intended to take a picture for the Instagram account between this class and some quality study time at the library, but this was my second attempt for an image, as some similar sliding doors down the stairs didn’t end up looking as nice, and therefore, deleted the image. I tagged the image at RMIT University before I uploaded.

Distribution

I kept to a similar style of hashtagging as prior posts, #doors, #desaturated etc. In addition, this newer post has some more context-specific (and again, possibly ‘douchey’) hashtags such as #duality.  This was also my first week of extending the distribution of the posts, sharing them to both my personal Twitter and Tumblr.

Both do not have massive followings, but the like ratio has drastically changed, with this current image, and at the time of writing has 11 likes, and 1 comment. However, the comment is a site trying to get me to pay them money to repost my picture, but it looks good for the rep!

From the second batch of content onwards, some of my friends found this account, and started to follow and like my content (with no influence by me).

Instagram Week 1 – Video // Networked Media // Week 9

Video

This video was taken whilst waiting for my tram home outside building 80 of RMIT University. I liked the slow, methodical slide of the sliding door, and how it was both see-through and slightly reflective, fitting the theme of the account


Authoring 

I walked up to the sliding door of the building, standing about a meter away as to not block both the doorway or the footpath it entered out onto. From there, I waited for the door to open, and began to take a clean, no break clip of people walking in through the door, with the intention of stopping recording once the door had fully closed. I used the back camera of my Samsung S9+, captured through the direct video selection of the ‘post’ screen, so the process of posting the video to Instagram was the most convenient.

From there, I cemented my colour pallet theme and applied a 60-80 % saturated ‘Inkwell’ filter to the video, giving it a desaturated look. I kept the original audio from the video, as I felt like it added a soundscape to the piece.

Publishing

I continued with the titling theme of the image before this, going for the literal title ‘Reflecting Slide’, because of the reflection the door creates and the motion of which it travels. I then used 5 spaced out periods to isolate the title from the hashtags.

This was the second post to the Instagram account, which began the theme of ‘Image, Video, Image’, which I plan to continue throughout the assignment.  I tagged the location as Melbourne City Centre, even though it was taken at RMIT, purely because it was the first option to pop up.

Distribution

I continued with the abundance of ‘basic’ and obvious hashtags to again, reach further than my at the time 0 fan base. These included the typical #doors, #desaturated and #melbourne. Furthermore, I added some video specific ones, such as #video, and some content specific ones, such as #reflections. As of writing, this video has 7 likes.

This first week’s batch did not include any further distribution, to see the effects it has on engagement, which included this video.

Instagram Week 1 – Pictures // Networked Media // Week 9

Picture 1 

This is the first image I posted, which started the theme of this part of Assignment 3. After leaving a lecture for Networked Media, I noticed this glass door, with an opaque gradient created from the light. The different levels of opacity intrigued me, and I snapped a picture of it.

Picture 2

This was the second image I took for my Instagram account, and the third post I made to it. I was traming home along Lygon street and decided that the tram doors applied to both the somewhat see-through and urban aesthetic my account was going for, and decided to snap a picture from my seat


Authoring

For the first image, I lined myself up towards the door, opening the Instagram application, and snapping the picture directly from the camera feature in the post-selection screen, where you have a choice between ‘Gallery’, ‘Camera’, and ‘Video’. I chose to do this to make these images and videos the most ‘Instagram based’ they could be, with everything being done in house. I used the back facing camera of my Samsung S9+, converted through the aforementioned camera software in the Instagram app. I tried to line the borders of the door slightly in the borders of the square of Instagram’s portrait mode dimensions.

For the second image, I captured it from the seat of the tram I was sitting on, leaning slightly over to try and align the beams of the motorised door somewhat in the centre (doesn’t seem to have worked). I again used my Samsung S9+’s back camera through the camera feature of Instagram.

From there, I applied the ‘Inkwell’ filter in the Instagram application but reduced it’s intensity to around 60-80%, giving it a desaturated feel.  No other adjustments were made to the images from there.

 

Publishing

I decided I wanted to title the images in a similar, vague theme. The first one was titled ‘Opaque’ because of how the door’s opacity doesn’t allow you to see clearly through it. The second image was titled ‘Push and Pull’ due to the way the tram doors operate, seemingly pushing and pulling against their gears. I then, as with all other pictures to come, spaced out 5 periods before adding my hashtags.

These images were captured in one take and were the only images I had in mind at the time. I tagged the location of RMIT University for the first, and Brunswick East for the second.

 

Distribution

For the first image, I used a various abundance of hashtags to distribute my images further than my (at the time) 0 follower fanbase. I decided to go vague, using things like #doors and #desaturated to try and capture an artistic and strange market. Furthermore, I also used more basic and commonly used hashtags such as #melbourne, for broad distribution.

For the second image,  I used the same, vague and artsy hashtags as the previous post, but got a little more specific, such as addressing the tram itself with #publictransport and #tram

Doing this seems to have garnered me a large number of likes compared to what I was respected, with the time of this post, both pictures having over 5 likes each. I decided not to share both these images, or the first video post, to other social media sites, to determine if the external distribution would have any effect on the engagement of the profile and their retrospective images.

Review // Networked Media // Assignment 2

I declare that in submitting all work for this assessment I have read, understood and agree to the content and expectations of the assessment declaration – https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/support-and-facilities/student-support/equitable-learning-services

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Review – Word Count: 1078

Provide a Definition of ‘Analogue Photography’

Analogue refers to the pre-digital age of a medium, often in a physical form.  An example of an analogue process is a ruler, which uses physical lines and numbers for the user to determine the length or width of an object or surface (Woodford, C. 2010-2012). These are often tedious procedures, involving skill and knowledge.

With the background of the concept out of the way, analogue photography refers to ‘old style’ film photography, using an analogue camera (Woodford, C. 2010-2012).  The process of analogue photography used plastic film to react and record light onto these physical strips, which were then carefully developed in a chemical solution and printed onto image paper, and hung to dry. In the early days of the practice, these images were often black and white.

 

Provide a Definition of ‘Analogue Video’

Analogue video is very different from how digital video operates. Lister describes the process of analogue as physical properties being stored as ‘analogous’, or similar, tactile form (2009, pg.17). Similarly to analogue photography, light is reflected through a photosensitive lens onto a plate, with its patterns are captured as a voltage, and converted into grooves and frequencies.

During the days of analogue television, these frequencies were sent to broadcast televisions using ariels and transmitted to homes, projecting the previously captured light to the back of television screens, creating a moving image. This transfer of radio waves can happen both on a national scale and on a local scale

 

Provide a Definition of ‘Networked Photography’

Networked photography is often associated with mobile camera devices, such as smartphones or tablets.  They have become something new and revolutionary in the grand history of photography, being most people’s ‘default consumer camera’ ( Palmer, D. 2014, pg. 249). These devices are able to capture a moment or memory instantly to your device, with the storage capacity beyond the wildest dreams of the analogue photography age.

This is because images are no longer stored physically, but rather, digitally. Instead of the aforementioned physically labouring task of developing photos using film, images captured on smart devices are converted and stored as a digital code. This allows for files to be unbelievably small in scale, and easily convertible. This means that most networked photography content is authored, published and distributed all on the one device, through services such as Instagram.

 

Provide a Definition of ‘Networked Video’

Networked video, similar to networked photography, is an evolution of its counterpart, analogue video.  While networked video also completely redefined the storage of video products, it also changed how we interact with video media.  Originally, all video was ‘hard video’, with a physical end to the product, once you had viewed it, it was done. This was reminiscent of the analogue print media format. However, with the rise of video-blogging, video became endless, or ‘soft’, with hyperlinks and suggested autoplays keeping users in a constant, compelling loop.  This was the peak of ‘refreshingly amateur’ (Berry, T. 2018, pg.8) content, having a smaller scale and relatable vibe compared to the mainstreams of Hollywood. This was people being people

Furthermore, once platforms like DailyMotion and YouTube hit the world, video blogs and other content could be uploaded with even more ease, rather than learning to meticulously code in videos to your blog,  footage could be uploaded seamlessly to the web. This progressed as social media has, and now, users can make, upload and distribute video content almost anywhere, even Instagram.

 

Provide Definitions for the Terms ‘Authoring’, ‘Publishing’ and ‘Distributing’

Authoring – The Creation of Content
Authoring refers to the process of capturing and/or creating the product you are going to post. An example of authoring a product would be taking a photo of a tree on your mobile phone, and saving it to the camera roll.

Publishing – The Initial Sharing of Content
Publishing refers to the process of sharing the authored content to an initial audience, whether that be on a specific platform, to a specific group or on a specific press run. An example of publishing would be posting that previously mentioned photo of a tree to your Instagram for your followers.

Distributing – Getting the Content Further
Distributing refers to the process of attempting to reach a larger audience in comparison to the published audience. This can involve sharing the content on different social media sites, categorising and hyperlinking the product. An example of distributing is adding hashtags to your photo of the aforementioned tree to reach a larger audience.

 

What Differences and Similarities did you discover between the way Analogue and Networked Photos are Authored, Published and Distributed?

While networked photography is an evolution of its analogue counterpart, it has differed greatly in scale and accessibility. Analogue photography was an expensive and exclusive hobby, not easily available to everyone.  Film wasn’t cheap, and to publish a taken photo either took an immense amount of skill and resources to develop personally, or costed money to get done professionally. In comparison, networked photography almost completely breaks down all the barriers held up by analogue, with every other device on the planet having a camera, with the ability to capture staggeringly good photographs. Furthermore, there are more options with how photos are taken, such as in colour, rather than the B&W of typical analogue pictures.

Networked photography also allows for cheaper and easier publishing and distributing methods. Pictures can be instantly uploaded and shared on software such as Instagram to your immediate friends and the world. However, this raises the debate of ‘photography as an art form’ over a ‘social practice‘ (Kamila, K. Zylinska, J. 2015, pg.8) with analogue photographers being a bigger deal due to the skill needed, in comparison to anyone being able to take a picture now. Furthermore,  film photography meant that every capture mattered, with people taking more time for ‘pure vision’, and would often result in more ‘art’ being produced and distributed.

 

What Differences and Similarities did you discover between the way Analogue and Networked Videos are Authored, Published and Distributed?

Networked video is somewhat of a hybrid of its counterpart, analogue video. Analogue is hard-video; it has a structured and physical start and end. When you go to the cinemas, the movie eventually ends, and you leave. In contrast, networked video is soft, it has no direct or clear end, it can link off or suggest similar content to keep you watching. This is because there is a staggering amount of content being authored and published every second, on platforms such as YouTube and Instagram.

This ease of video production opens the world up to a variety of niche and ‘amateur’ content that can be more recognisable than cinema to the right person. However, there are still generations of people who don’t get the appeal of this kind of content, and prefer the traditional distribution of television and film, completely disregarding networked video as a legitimate art form or entertainment medium

Reference List

Berry, T. B 2018, ‘Situating Videoblogging’, Institute of Network Cultures,  pp. 9–22

Kamila K & Zylinska J, editors. Photomediations: A Reader. Open Humanities Press, 2016, http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/ titles/photomediations/ (pp.7-16)

Lister, M et al 2009, ‘New Media: A Critical Introduction.’ Routledge, New York, pp. 16-21

Palmer, D 2014 ‘Mobile Media Photography’, in The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media, (eds) Goggin G., Hjorth L., Routledge, New York pp. 249–55.

Woodford, C. (2010/2012) Analog and digital. Retrieved from https://www.explainthatstuff.com/analog-and-digital.html

Networked Video // Networked Media // Week 8

Joe Winkler – @joewinkler4

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Video

Who is the Practitioner?

Joe Winkler is an Australian resident and student, as well as an aspiring media creator and often uploads both image, and in this case, video content to his Instagram. I know and am friends with him personally.  Video wise, he creates short-form visual products, accompanied often by his own musical endeavours.

 How was the Video Authored?

The 1-minute video was recorded on his personal DSLR camera, edited and animated on his desktop, exported to his mobile device. It consists of all original content filmed and made by him.

How was the Video Published?

Once exported to his phone, Joe would upload the video to his Instagram, primarily to his followers and immediate friends.  It was uploaded on the 25th of April of 2019.

How was the Video Distributed?

The video was primarily distributed on Instagram to his immediate followers, not including any #hastags to gain any external publicity.

 

Networked Photography // Networked Media // Week 7

Hirxeth

https://www.instagram.com/hirxeth/ https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp2VgI1HWP6/

 

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Who is the Practitioner?

Hirxeth (real name being Anna) is a Swedish blogger who primarily uses Tumblr for film and general aesthetic collections and listing. She is someone who I have loosely followed for the past couple of years, and within the past month or so discovered and enjoyed her personal Instagram account.

The Image

The image above is from a collection she posted 24 weeks ago from her trip to Portugal.  The image itself does not have a title, but the collection’s title is called ‘Mix’.

How was the Image Authored?

The image was taken on her latest iPhone, I believe it is an iPhone 10, using the back facing camera on the device. Without any direct context, I would gather the photo is from the window view of wherever she was staying in Portugal, overlooking the town she was in. The shutters of the perched window frame the picture really nicely IMHO.

How was the Image Published?

The image above, once taken using her iPhone, was uploaded to Instagram, probably with a few manipulations as a part of a collection from her trip,

How was the Image Distributed?

The image, once posted on Instagram, was available on all her follower’s feeds, as well as most likely a suggestion tab to some through Instagram’s ‘discover’ tab, which pairs similar styles to users. Furthermore, I first encountered this picture and many of her others as shared links on her Tumblr blog.