From Snapshots to Social Media - The Changing Picture of Domestic Photography

This book describes the future of snapshot photography as a continuum of over a century of technological advancements, consumer business, and social practices. Snapshot photography refers to the devices, practices and culture of ordinary people capturing, sharing and using photographs taken by themselves or their acquaintances. Snapshot photography is in the middle of a major change as digital cameras, camera phones and the internet have become everyday technology in the developed countries. Based on the history of snapshot photography, interviews with industry stakeholders, contemporary technology and social sciences research, the book presents three major trends for the future:
The types of snapshot multimedia
The social practices with snapshots
Embedding physicality into digital snapshots.
The book established these three trends as general paths that snapshot photography has followed in the past, can be identified presently, and will follow in the future.