Landscape and travel photographer James Popsys has noticed a troubling habit lately: he’s posting things “for the dopamine hit,” and he doesn’t believe he’s the only one.
The result, says Popsys, is a “photographic groupthink,” caused by social media, that encourages people to post the same thing over and over, just because it’s popular. Popsys […]. petapixel.com
Next to portraiture, landscape photography is among the oldest genres. It has gone through evolutions, and thanks to pioneers like Ansel Adams, landscape photography even helped bring photography into the larger art discussion.
There is a lot of talk these days about social media use and its effects on children. It seems that states are proposing and passing laws restricting social media left and right, with California, Texas, and New York, among others, passing social media-related laws last year.
In a partnership with the Center for Open Science, Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta revealed it will give data to researchers for a study. [Read More]
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TechCrunch describes the social media photo-sharing app Daylyy as the "anti-Instagram."
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The social media landscape is one of constant catch-up and copying. Like Instagram and TikTok have long offered to users, people can now embed content from Snapchat on external websites. [Read More]