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Make a follow-up of a student's weekly discussion and respond with your opinion regarding to her post

------You don't have to post this in APA format necessarily, it's just giving feedback to the student .

Roukaya Jomaa

Hello Class I decided to go with option 2.

Option 2: In the 21st century, the smartphone camera changed the way we use and view photography. In addition, apps and social media have changed the way we share photography.

· How has the invention of the smartphone camera changed photography?

· How have apps and social media changed the way we share photos? Are they positive and/or negative changes? Explain.

· Include a statement from a current photographer or critic to support your points.

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The development of smartphone cameras has had a significant impact on photography in the twenty-first century. High-quality cameras are now available on smartphones, allowing everyone to immediately record and share photographs. By making photography more accessible, more people are now able to engage in this kind of art. Smartphones' on-demand photo-taking capabilities have spawned a new visual communication culture.

 

Social media and apps have altered how we share photos by making it simpler than ever to share and see pictures. Social media sites like Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat have grown in popularity as photo-sharing sites, opening up fresh avenues for individual expression and social interaction. But the emergence of social media has also generated worries regarding privacy and ownership of images.

 

Chase Jarvis, a photographer, claims "Everyone can participate thanks to the democratization of photography, which is a wonderful thing. The drawback is that it's challenging to stand out." 2016 (Kander). In other words, while cellphones and social media have increased accessibility to photography, they have also made it harder for photographers to differentiate their work from the competition.

 

The essay "The Culture of Connection and the Disappearing Private Citizen" by Andrejevic (2014) is an academic source that backs up these claims. In this article, the author analyzes how social media affects privacy and makes the case that societal and cultural influences frequently lead people to want to expose personal information online. The push to post photos online raises questions about surveillance and data privacy and has the potential to blur the lines between personal and public life.

 

In general, social media's emergence and the development of smartphone cameras have had a significant impact on photography. While these modifications have made the art form more accessible, they have also presented new difficulties for photographers and posed issues of ownership and privacy.

 

Sources:

 

Andrejevic, M. (2014). The culture of connectivity and the disappearing private citizen. The Sociological Quarterly, 55(2), 223-228.

 

Kander, E. (2016, August 18). The changing face of photography. BBC News. Retrieved from https://www.bbc.com/news/business-37099874