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Eric Schmit dans un entretien avec Charlie Rose, publié par Tech Crunch "Eric Schmidt Tells Charlie Rose Google Is “Unlikely” To Buy Twitter And Wants To Turn Phones Into TVs"

Le site Richelieu de la Bibliothèque Nationale acceuillera la célèbre exposition "Controverses.Photographies à histoires" de Daniel Girardin et Christian Pirker, du 3 mars au 24 mai.

Depuis son invention, la photograhie, sa présentation et sa valeur sociale, restent un énigme pour l'oeil inconscient des pouvoirs de cet objet visuel enregistré.

Pour quoi faut-il se méfier de ce moyen de représentation visuelle?

L'exposition de Girardin et Pirker, rassemblant plus de 80 clichés pris entre1840 et 2007, propose un parcours visuel historique qui invite à observer la photo dans son contexte et ses enjeux.

"Une liseuse dans le métro"

The problem is that nobody can do anything any more without putting pictures of it on the internet. It's as if something doesn't exist unless it has been recorded Victoria Coren's article dated 4/01/09 "I don't normally sign petitions, but in this case..." The Sunday Observer, highlights a fundemental cultural issue regarding digital photographs, their visiblity and online sharing.

Note: This post contains references and content citation in French!

I remember my first encounter with an electronic screen, displaying moving pictures and sound was that of a Television set, but I guess with the fast paced digital technology evolution the same is no longer true for the digital natives in my family. Lets put it this way, I might be called as in the celluar phone technology the "first G" Motorola Dyna TAC 8000X ( no pictures, no sms, no email, no mobile internet, in short no display screen). However, even if my enfant audiovisual memories were initally in CRT (cathode ray tube), I did get to see a lot of digital gadgetery. My first digital encounters with LCD ( liquid crystal display) screens were : digital calulators, digital clocks and 2 G mobile (car) phones. All these might not be very fancy, nor very colourful, but these do remain my first LCD references. The 3 G display tools which now nestle comfortably in the hands of my nieces (aged 5 and 12) were dream gadgets only seen in Bond movies.

At Lhivic (The only French laboratory dedicated to Contemporary Visual Studies) we like to do stuff "visually".
As a first year PhD researcher in the field of Visual Sociology in Online Social Networks, I have closely followed Boyd's work on SNS.
It gives me great pleasure that Danah shared her joy visually on flickr with her friends and contacts!

We are proud of you Danah!

Source: flickr gallery of Danah Boyd

See at on Danah's Blog

So like what is the first thing that you do when you connect with a "lost & found" friend on Facebook?

I was amazed at my reaction when an old student, now turned into a friend, accepted my invite on Facebook( despite my pseudo name)!

We chatted and instinctively I started browsing through her Photo Album as if to catch up on lost time!

Browsing through her photos made me happy, brought back memories of my other students (all this photo browsing is going alongside the chat)

And then suddenly in the chat pops up a very unexpected remark (usually my older real world contacts remark astonishingly on the choice of my Facebook "pseudo name")

But this is how a real Digital Native reacted:

Arooj''wowwww you cut your hair''!!!

Here is a snippet of our brief yet extremely meaningful chat:

The "haha yes!" resumes all!

I guess at this point in my research I can say that Facebook helps us prepare " Visual Time Capsules" constructed, organized, dated and tagged!

Browsing through photographs and videos shared on Facebook has always been popular, but what is even more amazing is that now it is the "done thing".

You simply just do it No questions asked!

There's no point in social networking if the only thing you can think of writing on your site involves how much time you spend social networking, says Harriet Swain

Lire la suite sur:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/dec/02/student-using-facebook

I have been on Facebook since 2 years, I have 162 friends (and counting), but I must admit that today somehow this, my favourite digital haunt, is losing its funky socializing flavour. There could be many reasons for this sudden emptiness on an otherwise chirpy network: I could be sick, my Facebook friends could be sick, we all could be down with flu, however their recent "is" status suggest otherwise. Never the less I am preplexed because "something" just doesn't feel right on Facebook anymore!
Why?
Here is how I experienced the situation: