The document discusses the concept of "the Facebook eye" and how social media has changed our relationship with photography and documenting experiences. It explores how platforms like Facebook promote documenting life through photos in order to look back on memories nostalgically, as well as how selfies allow us to see ourselves through how others see us. The document also mentions how apps like Snapchat could allow for more temporary forms of social media that view experiences in the present rather than as potential memories of the past.
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1. THE FACEBOOK EYE
NATHAN JURGENSON
University of Maryland, U.S.A.
The New Inquiry
@nathanjurgenson
2. "In my view, you cannot claim to have really seen
something until you have photographed it
-Emile Zola (1901), before pics or it didnt happen
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4. THE LOOKING GLASS SELFIE
weve always been third-person
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"Each to each a looking-glass
Reflects the other that doth pass
Charles Cooley (1902)
5. THE FACEBOOK EYE
"It is a nostalgic time right now, and
photographs actively promote nostalgia
Susan Sontag (1973)
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6. temporary
DOCUMENTARY VISION
Snapchat and the potential for
temporary social media
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viewing the present as the present
and not a potential future past
7. THE FACEBOOK EYE
NATHAN JURGENSON
University of Maryland, U.S.A.
The New Inquiry
@nathanjurgenson