Lesson 02 The Evolution of the Camera
The Smartphone and Citizen Journalism
By integrating the mobile phone and the camera, the smartphone has further transformed the way we use and think about photography.
Nowadays, whenever we want to take a picture, our camera is already in our hand, in our smartphone.
The smartphone has also made it easier to share our photographs with others since smartphones come with a wireless Internet connection and social networking apps.
These features of the smartphone have resulted in new picture-taking habits.
Taking a photograph of oneself was difficult and not often done in the past.
However, the smartphone made it so convenient and popular that taking a photograph of oneself, or a selfie, is now one of the most common types of photography on the Internet.
It can be said that the smartphone lets everyone use photography as a tool for self-expression.
The smartphone also enables ordinary people to gather, report, and spread news without relying on the mainstream media, such as newspapers or television.
This practice is called citizen journalism.
Thanks to citizen journalists, inappropriate or inconsiderate behaviors, such as leaving one’s pet’s droppings on the street or abusing a bus driver, are quickly photographed and reported online.
Internationally, citizen journalism has played a crucial role in letting the world know the realities of major world events, such as the earthquake in Haiti and the Arab Spring.
By any measure, the world today is far different from the world as it was in the film Argo.
There are infinitely more photographs and amateur photographers now than there were 40 years ago.
Some people worry that these changes have made us preoccupied with taking pictures and flooding the Internet with too many unimportant images.
There may be some truth in that, but it cannot be denied that technology today has made photography an essential part of our culture and that it has altered the way people see the world.
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