A photograph that doesn't contain a picture of yourself isn't a selfie. Technically speaking, a selfie has to be done while holding the camera you're using. You can use a reflective surface, but if you're not holding the camera, it isn't the technical selfie. Moving into the general structure of Instagram, which was a program that enabled users to share selfies and other pictures with one another and the most popular platform for it in its time, there's an entire separate class for images of what you're eating, varying from 'foodporn' to 'nom.' Then there are 'ootd' pics, or Outfit of the Day pictures. They're generally a class of selfie. TBT is the initialism for "Throw Back Thursday," a day when users share old photographs of themselves. Petsagram is for pet pictures.
All of these are in the form of 'hashtags,' which is a form of metadata placed on content that allows users to search across multiple users. Tagging was broadly used across multiple platforms.
[Eating all of this information up. Actually, he grabs out a notebook to write it down as Dirk explains so he doesn't forget some of the terms.]
So growing up you basically had to learn an entire computer language in order to properly use the technology at your disposal. At least it doesn't sound too hard to pick up once you hear it once.
Learning by doing...? If you grew up with the technology and platforms already in place at least that seems a little more intuitive...though I would hope guides existed as well for less savvy users.
The entire system creates clear divides between those who know and those who don't. It's possible to learn, but in some ways it was designed to foster a sense of community by creating that secondary code.
It happens in practice. Generally, it's the sense of community that is built by dividing those 'in the know' from those out of it. If you know what TBT stands for you have that sense of belonging to the community that uses the term, while those who don't understand it are outside the community. The insider's perspective can only be defined by delineating an outside.
I suppose it makes sense. Your involvement in the community is proportionate to how much effort you commit to putting in, both in learning the technology and the platforms and terminology, and taking the selfies themselves. It's a neat enough system and not an uncommon paradigm, just harder for us to picture since it's technologically-based.
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All of these are in the form of 'hashtags,' which is a form of metadata placed on content that allows users to search across multiple users. Tagging was broadly used across multiple platforms.
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So growing up you basically had to learn an entire computer language in order to properly use the technology at your disposal. At least it doesn't sound too hard to pick up once you hear it once.
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[Like ruins nerds knowing the ancient language or something, maybe]
I guess I can see it. Does that happen in practice, or just in theory?
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