Edgar Gómez Cruz
Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3)
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Digital photography practices in everyday life

This presentation shows the methodological design of an ethnography that studies the digital photography practices in everyday life. Starting the research online and following the actors offline, the reflection is upon the use of praxeological approach to study practices that goes beyond online/offline dichotomies. Based in the "circuit of culture" proposed by Paul Du Gay and Stuart Hall, the research project looks for the entire circuit of production, distribution and exhibition of photographs by amateurs, specially those that use online services like flickr