DOCUMENTING THE ORDINARY - MOBILE DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY AS AN AGENT OF CHANGE IN PEOPLE'S PRACTICES CONCERNING STORING AND SHARING OF PHOTOGRAPHY

摘要

Our research looks at sharing and storing of digital photographs from the cultural-anthropological perspective of people's everyday practices. Our case study was conducted within the Celtic-funded project EnComPas , which studied possibilities of supporting the communication needs of communities, especially families and home. In a study conducted in Arabianranta, Helsinki, we first mapped families' practices of storing and sharing traditional photographs through interviews; then studied the changes introduced by digital technology and especially mobile phone's camera technology through trials and renewed interviews. On the basis of our findings we believe that the features of digital photography storing and sharing applications should be developed to support the needs we discovered in our study: easy mass-dumping, possibility to organise and reorganise photographs into albums which tell the story.