Digital photographic practices as expressions of personhood and identity: variations across school leavers and recent retirees.
Over the last two decades, digital photography has been adopted by young and old. Many young adults easily take photos, share them across multiple social networks using smartphones, and create digital identities for themselves consciously and unconsciously. Is the same true for older adults? As part...
| Publicado en: | Visual Studies Vol. 32; no. 4; pp. 313 - 329 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2017
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