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The genre i've swept into this week has allowed me to be closer to this community network due to living close to a cemetery. Please don't be alarmed, i am okay, i've just joined Graves, Tombs and Cemeteries. Most pictures on this blog are from other countries so i am a little excited about sharing some Australian Outback graves to the world. You can check them out via this link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/100157812@N05/
Through the medium of photograph blogs, authors communicate their public diaries, showing aspects of their lives in ways that allows the reader to share a visual sense of author's experiences through different lens's, lighting and shutter speed effects. They've created dimensions of space, describe times that peak on their feelings and emotions of space within their place.
Van Luyn describes Genre as a way of expressing self through cultural products and consists of style and form. (2013).
Another form of expressing self is through a written diary, social networking sites and through blogging.
One author profile who caught my attention this week: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrtungsten62/, has been a member of Flickr since December 2010 and lives in Holland. When scrolling through the author's public diary from 2010 to present it is noticeable that the conventions used are through self and community to attract the reader. A narrative is used in the title of each picture communicating either the name of a place where the picture was taken or what the author interprets the shot to be.
In McNeill's (2011) reading, it describes how "internet diarists have used their "amateur" narratives to achieve "professional" writing acclaim." (pp. 313). Over the time of being on Flickr, this author has won awards and was interviewed in September 2013 in a well known magazine in Holland, being titled as "the new talent".
References
McNeill, L. (2011). Diary 2.0?: A genre moves from page to screen, in Rowe, C. & Wyss, E.L. (Eds.) Language and new media: Linguistic, cultural and technological evolutions (pp. 318-323). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton. Retrieved from: http://www.learnjcu.jcu.edu.au Van Luyn, A. (2013). BA1002: Our Space: Networks, Narratives and the Making of Place, Week 6 notes. [PowerPoint slides]. Retrieved from: http://www.learnjcu.jcu.edu.au
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This is really interesting. I understand that photos could be a form of diary. However, I never really thought about the process involved and how each photo could represented in different way, to express different opinions and experiences each time. Really insightful.
ReplyDeleteThe use of such pictures in this visual blog, creates an intriguing experience that a written account would not be able to replicate. I feel that it is important for the authors of blogs to provide visual evidence of their experiences as it gives their narrative credibility. Without these haunting photos attracting and maintaining readership (Mcniell, 2012, p.318) I doubt this blog would be as popular as it currently is.
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McNeill, L. (2011). Diary 2.0?: A genre moves from page to screen, in Rowe, C. & Wyss, E.L. (Eds.) Language and new media: Linguistic, cultural and technological evolutions (pp. 318-323). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton.