These readings were more on the topic of photography, with emphasis on it's advancements and delving slightly into amateur cinematography (Youtube).
First were Skenazy and Williams et. al. Skenazy recognized the ability to capture and express the good moments in photography and nitpicking what is portrayed into the ideal family album. We, as families, don't want to soil our good names and want only to be seen in top form when looking back on memories. This is an extremely bad thing, according to Skenazy, because we are neglecting truths and essentially giving our memories a makeover to where they are hardly recognizable.
Williams et. al. Tracked the progression of photography, and its descent into the impersonal and easily accessible tool it is today. It seems to condemn the end result, saying that it went from painstaking and carefully constructed to snapshots easily taken and uploaded to the cloud in an instant. They do seem to appreciate the rise of amateur photographers in the middle, who seemed to break the mold and not follow the concrete rules of photography and created new boundaries for the art.
Pogue writes about various sites, and seems more of an objective informational article than anything. It seemed to be put into the reading solely for the purpose of showing how many sites that hosted photos there were and how easily accessible they were. Strangelove knows what's going on, relying on kairos to defend the development of Youtube, letting us know that our affection with viral videos is something thats very important. It reminds us that with all this impersonal technological development, we still haven't lost one of our most important human characteristics; we still have a firm grasp on our sense of humor.
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