May 2016
Beginner
296 pages
10h 54m
English
7 Photographs of place in phonespace
Verbal mobile phone communication is mostly confined to locations that have no intrinsic relationship to the act of communication; the content of communication is mostly determined by the participating subjects, not by the physical location in which the communicators reside. When talking or texting on the mobile phone, one does not necessarily have any indication of the location of the other communicator. By contrast, when communicating with photographs, there is often an essential connection between the physical setting and the act of communication. The photograph is, after all, captured in a definite location and, with ...