6 Variance in everyday photography
Karin Becker
The aim of this chapter is to suggest ways that a perspective that asks who connects to digital photography, where and in what ways can help us to understand how complex digital photographic technologies impact on our ways of living together. There are at least two assumptions underlying this perspective: first, that digital photography is not a single unified phenomenon but involves variation across many applications, practices and cultural settings; and, second, embedded in the notion of variation, that comparative research can contribute to this endeavour. Digital photography is often laden with a third assumption, namely that its technologies have broken with previous applications and ...