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Images and Messaging : LJ5

Focusing on Flickr this week was very refreshing, as it's not a social media platform that I hear or think about that often. I remember that I used to use Flickr when I was a kid (around and thought I wanted to be a blogger or photographer. It was cool to get back on the site and see how things have changed. It was intriguing to read about the impact that Flickr has had on how we as a society view photos, since Flickr was in the photo-sharing game long before Instagram. It marked the beginning of the shift in how we take and experience photos as well. "The everyday image becomes something that even the amateur can create and comment on with relative authority and ease" (Murray, 2008). The average person can now become creators of content as well as let go of the hierarchy surrounding photography. In explaining that "the nature of photography now is it's in motion" the Journal of Visual Culture highlights the shift in how we view photos (Murray, 2008). I think that this has been a great change. To create a community around sharing the most beautiful parts of life is one of my favorite things about social media. 

Focusing on Flickr this week has helped me realize the impact it has had on us, and on platforms that would come later on. Even if we all did not directly use Flickr, it's concept influenced. As Murray states, "Flickr signals a shift in the engagement with the everyday image...photography has become less about the special and rarefied moments of domestic/family living and more about an immediate, rather fleeting display of one's discovery of the small and mundane. "(Murray, 2008). Knowing this doesn't affect my use of social media, but it makes me appreciate Flickr more than I did before. 

Murray, S. (2008). Digital images, photo-sharing, and our shifting notions of everyday aesthetics. Journal of Visual Culture, 7(2), 147–163. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470412908091935

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