[ecrea] new ecrea book - Digital Photography and Everyday Life (2016, Routledge).

New book: Digital Photography and Everyday Life (2016, Routledge)

Gómez Cruz, Edgar and Lehmuskallio, Asko (eds.), 2016. Digital 
Photography and Everyday Life: Empirical Studies on Material Visual 
Practices (Routledge Studies in European Communication Research and 
Education). London and New York: Routledge, 296 pages.

https://www.routledge.com/Digital-Photography-and-Everyday-Life-Empirical-Studies-on-Material-Visual/Gomez-Cruz-Lehmuskallio/p/book/9781138899810
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Summary

With contributors from ten different countries and backgrounds in a 
range of academic disciplines - including anthropology, media studies 
and visual culture - this collection takes a uniquely broad perspective 
on photography by situating the image-making process in wider 
discussions on the materiality and visuality of photographic practices 
and explores these through empirical case studies.

By focusing on material visual practices, the book presents a 
comprehensive overview of some of the main challenges digital 
photography is bringing to everyday life. It explores how the 
digitization of photography has a wide-reaching impact on the use of the 
medium, as well as on the kinds of images that can be produced and the 
ways in which camera technology is developed. The exploration goes 
beyond mere images to think about cameras, mediations and technologies 
as key elements in the development of visual digital cultures.

Digital Photography and Everyday Life will be of great interest to 
students and scholars of Photography, Contemporary Art, Visual Culture 
and Media Studies, as well as those studying Communication, Cultural 
Anthropology, and Science and Technology Studies.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Richard Chalfen

Why Material Visual Practices?
Asko Lehmuskallio and Edgar Gómez Cruz

Part I: VARIANCE IN USE IN EVERYDAY PHOTOGRAPHY
1."I’m a picture girl!" Mobile photography in Tanzania
Paula Uimonen
2."Today I dressed like this": selling clothes and playing for 
celebrity. Self-representation and consumption on Facebook
Sara Pargana Mota
3. Amplification and Heterogeneity: Seniors and Digital Photographic 
Practices
Maria Schreiber
4. Illness, death and grief: the daily experience of viewing and sharing 
digital images
Montse Morcate and Rebeca Pardo
5. The Boston Marathon bombing investigation as an example of networked 
journalism and power of big data analytics
Anssi Männistö
6. Variance in Everyday Photography
Karin Becker

Part II: CAMERAS, CONNECTIVITY AND TRANSFORMED LOCALITIES
7. Photographs of Place in Phonespace. Camera Phones as a Location-Aware 
Mobile Technology
Mikko Villi
8. (Digital) Photography, Experience and Space in Transnational 
Families. A Case Study of Spanish-Irish Families living in Ireland
Patricia Prieto Blanco
9. Visual politics and material semiotics: The digital camera’s 
translation of political protest
Rune Saugmann Andersen
10. Linked Photography: A praxeological analysis of augemented reality 
navigation in the early twentieth century
Tristan Thielmann
11. Photographic Places and Digital Wayfaring: conceptualizing 
relationships between cameras, connectivities and transformed localities
Sarah Pink

Part III: CAMERA AS THE EXTENSION OF THE PHOTOGRAPHER
12. Exploring everyday photographic routines through the habit of Noticing
Eve Forrest
13. "Analogization": reflections on life-logging cameras, action cams 
and images’ changing meaning in a digital landscape
Paolo Favero
14. Photo-genic assemblages: Photography as a connective interface
Edgar Gómez Cruz
15. The camera as a sensor among many: The visualization of everyday 
digital photography as simulative, heuristic and layered pictures
Asko Lehmuskallio
16. Is the camera an extension of the Photographer?
Martin Lister 　

Outlook: Photographic Wayfaring, Now and to Come
Nancy Van House

Reviews

"This is an outstanding collection of essays which invites a radical 
rethinking of photography. Each chapter dismantles conventional 
understandings of photography by examining in detail a specific 
assemblage of social practice, camera technology and light-generated 
image. What photography is, what it does and what it might do is thus 
rendered radically open, and photography is once more made as 
remarkable, emergent and diverse as it was a century and a half ago. 
Essential reading for anyone interested in photography and visual culture."

Gillian Rose, Professor of Cultural Geography, The Open University, and 
Author of Visual Methodologies

"This exciting and multifaceted book casts new light on the practice of 
photography. Highlighting the various processes of communication, 
networking and human-nonhuman relationality in different parts of the 
world, it shows the photographic medium as literally teeming with life. 
This is a must-read not just for scholars and students of photography 
but for anyone who reads the news, uses social media, moves from place 
to place or owns a camera phone!"

Joanna Zylinska, Professor of New Media and Communications at 
Goldsmiths, University of London, and Curator of Photomediations Machine

About the Editors

Edgar Gómez Cruz is a Vice-Chancellor Research Fellow at RMIT, 
Melbourne. He has published widely on a number of topics relating to 
digital culture, ethnography, and photography. His recent publications 
include the book 'From Kodak Culture to Networked Image: An Ethnography 
of Digital Photography Practices' (2012). Current research investigates 
screen cultures and creative practices, which is funded through RCUK and 
Vice Chancellor research grants.

Asko Lehmuskallio is Chair of the ECREA TWG Visual Cultures and founding 
member of the Nordic Network for Digital Visuality. As senior researcher 
at Universities of Tampere and Siegen, he specialises in visual culture, 
mediated human action and networked cameras. Recent books include 
'Pictorial Practices in a "Cam Era": Studying non-professional camera 
use' (2012) and '#snapshot: Cameras amongst us' (co-ed, 2014).
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