The Social Life of Cameraphone Images

Abstract

Cameraphones show the potential to revolutionize personal photography. We gave cameraphones linked to an Internetbased uploading and sharing system (MMM2) to a tightlyconnected group of 40 people for up to ten months. This paper examines cameraphone use as both continuous and discontinuous with prior practices in personal photography. We describe the social uses of cameraphones we observed among our participants: creating and maintaining social relationships, constructing personal and group memory, self-presentation, and self-expression. We note that the success of new technologies depends in part on how well they integrate with the users ’ heterogeneous networks of technologies, practices, and people. Author Keywords Cameraphones; photography; social uses of photography;

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