The Social Photo by Nathan Jurgenson
A set of bold theoretical reflections on how the social photo has remade our world
A textual portrait of a visual medium, The Social Photo entices the reader to view social media through the lens of cultural critiqueEthereal and provocative, as rich as it is succulent. -- Danah Boyd
Nathan Jurgenson is the Susan Sontag of the selfie generation-a bold, lucid, and important new voice in cultural criticism. In The Social Photo, he offers a truly groundbreaking analysis of how photography has changed in the age of social media, and how it is changing us. Every page crackles with insight and intelligence -- Mia Fineman, Curator of Photographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art and author of Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop
The world is glutted with pictures ... In The Social Photo,sociologist, media theorist, and Snapchat guru Nathan Jurgenson argues that this surfeit of images has ushered in a new way of seeing and existing in the world through our camera phones - one which no longer values the documentary function of photographs, but instead prizes their ability to expressively communicate with others. * Frieze *
A refreshing respite from most of the commentary streaming from our devices today. -- Tim Bradshaw * Financial Times *
[Jurgenson] has, for years, offered a valuable commentary on the cultural implications of social media. * TANK Magazine, Summer Reads *
Nathan Jurgenson is the Susan Sontag of the selfie generation-a bold, lucid, and important new voice in cultural criticism. In The Social Photo, he offers a truly groundbreaking analysis of how photography has changed in the age of social media, and how it is changing us. Every page crackles with insight and intelligence -- Mia Fineman, Curator of Photographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art and author of Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop
The world is glutted with pictures ... In The Social Photo,sociologist, media theorist, and Snapchat guru Nathan Jurgenson argues that this surfeit of images has ushered in a new way of seeing and existing in the world through our camera phones - one which no longer values the documentary function of photographs, but instead prizes their ability to expressively communicate with others. * Frieze *
A refreshing respite from most of the commentary streaming from our devices today. -- Tim Bradshaw * Financial Times *
[Jurgenson] has, for years, offered a valuable commentary on the cultural implications of social media. * TANK Magazine, Summer Reads *
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 New Inquiry, and a sociologist at Snap Inc. His work, which appears in academic journals and popular outlets, centres on a critique of 'digital dualism', a phrase he coined to describe the false belief that the internet is a separate virtual sphere or cyberspace. Instead, Nathan approaches digitality as embodied, material, and real.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781788730914 |
| ISBN 10 | 1788730917 |
| Title | The Social Photo |
| Author | Nathan Jurgenson |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Year published | 2019-04-30 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
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