Collecting and disseminating social digital photography – ideation workshop
November 23-24 the Collecting Social Photo project team is gathering in Helsinki to run an ideation workshop around collecting and disseminating social digital photography. We have invited external guests to join us, Ph.D. students and researchers as well as museum...
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Workshop – call for participation
The Collecting Social Photo project is happy to invite creative participants for a workshop in Helsinki, in November 2017, where we will develop prototype interfaces for social digital photography collections. The purpose of the workshop is to ideate together around...
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”I’m not stalking, I just find you really interesting”
The Finnish Museum of Photography has made good progress with its two case studies: Prehistory of Visual Social Media and Social Media Diaries. What have we learned so far? First, people truly enjoy nostalgizing, and photographs are a very natural way to do that....
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Six month report from the Collecting Social Photo team
This is a short version of the six month report of the Collection Social Photo team from The Nordic Museum, Stockholm County Museum, Aalborg City Archives and The Finnish Museum of Photography. Here you will find our first findings, research questions and examples of...
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Seminar in March 2017
A seminar with the project’s reference group was performed in March, 2017, at the Nordiska museet/Nordic Museum, Stockholm, Sweden. These are some notes from the discussions during the day.
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The state of the social digital photograph –delimitations, definitions, photography as the common denomination in a world of mixed media? Not all is new
My name is Lisa Ehlin and I hold a PhD in Fashion Studies at the Department of Media Studies at Stockholm University. In this project, I will primarily function as a researcher and an adviser, contextualising the project and finding relevant theoretical frameworks for...
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Collecting Digital Photographs in Norwegian Museums
Photos taken by a six year old boy, an established photographer and the icons of the app's "Snapchat", "Facebook", "Flickr" and "Instagram" in which a lot of photographs are spread. How do we choose what to collect? Guest post by Madli Hjermann, photo archivist...
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Launching the next phase of Collecting Social Photography
Never before have so many people photographed so much of their daily lives. We post and share billions of photographs online each year, primarily in social media. But what is left of the personal photographic archive when we log out of Snapchat, end our Instagram...
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Collecting Social Photography * End of the first Phase of the Project
First phase of the Collecting Social Photography project has ended and fortunately we (the partners in the project) have received funding to continue the work with social photography in archives and museums for another 3 ½ years. More about that in a future blog post....
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Collecting Social Photo on the news!
Watch the interview here! Last week the Cultural News at Swedish public service television broadcasted an interview with Elisabeth Boogh at Stockholms läns museum. The interview starts by stating that it was only a matter of time before cultural heritage institutions...
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