Camera phone images, videos and live streaming: a contemporary visual trend

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Special thanks to J. Cwaigenbaum, J. David, A. Gunthert, D. Gutierrez, A. Leblanc, A. Rosa, and G. Urioste, who helped me in the different stages of this article.

Notes

[1] Twitter is a microblogging site. Its newsfeed appears in real time. Once you log in, you can post anything up to 140 characters. Many people use it in order to share links or breaking news, or to reproduce again and again the web's latest ongoing topics.

[2] Marrakesh portail marocain d'actualités, ‘Vidéo de l'exécution de Saddam Hussein: un suspect arrêté’ [Marrakesh is a Moroccan news website, ‘Saddam Hussein's execution video, a suspect arrested’], 3 January 2007. http://www.emarrakech.info/Video-de-l-execution-de-Saddam-Hussein-un-suspect-arrete_a10539.html.

[3] Janis Krums’ footnote reads: ‘There's a plane in the Hudson. I'm on the ferry going to pick up the people. Crazy.’ 600 x 800 pixels, 15 January 2009. http://twitpic.com/135xa.

[4] Nobodyimportant10002, Tehran protests: camera phone - man shot by police (2 minutes 19 seconds), 20 June 2009. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1imoqIq3zo.

[5] Hamex Iranian Facebook Page 2009, http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=89928823259#/hamedfrt?v=wall&viewas=575313883.

[6] Waparazzi: ‘A new term for amateur photographers at major events was coined in February 2006 by Orange’ (MediaGuardian 2006).

[7] I would like to thank André Gunthert for providing me with this article.

[8] On 1 June 2009, Air France flight 447, carrying 228 people flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, was scheduled to arrive in Paris, but disappeared about 186 miles northeast of the coastal Brazilian city of Natal.

[9] A proof of this fact might be that on Flickr the iPhone was, for 2008, one of the most used cameras. See Ashley 2008.

[10] For example, the US-based General Social Survey (GSS) reveals that between 1973 and 2008, the number of people who expressed a ‘great deal’ of confidence in the press in general declined from 23% to 9%, while those who reported ‘hardly any’ increased from 15% to 45%. The corresponding figures for television were 18% to 9%, and 22% to 38%, respectively. Source: http://sda.berkeley.edu/archive.htm.

[11] A notable exception is Richard Chalfen's article ‘It's only a picture’ (Chalfen 2009).