'How I edit my Instagram images': investigating skilled vision in the work of YouTube's lifestyle-content creators.
Woman social media content creators' visual expertise is ill understood and arguably overlooked. Through the example of lifestyle-creators, this article explores the ways they plan, produce, and look at imagery on Instagram and YouTube, and shows that creators have specific ways to learn, communicat...
| Publicado en: | Visual Studies Vol. 40; no. 3; pp. 569 - 586 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jul2025
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