War on Instagram: Framing conflict photojournalism with mobile photography apps:

摘要: This paper examines recent acclaim for professional embedded photojournalists who visually document the experience of US soldiers in Afghanistan using popular mobile photo application Hipstamatic. These photos have stirred controversy among fellow journalists and cultural critics regarding use filters Hipstamatic similar app Instagram, their contribution to de-professionalization photojournalism, depiction war as stylishly vintage. The debates about Instagram photography open up a whole series enduring questions distinctions between illustration, amateur, reporting editorializing. In consideration shifting nature digital photography, specifically I argue that this discourse apps overlooks another important ethical issue: implications non-soldiers mimicking imagined hand t...