{"id":1024,"date":"2013-01-15T20:34:21","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T19:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visurus.wordpress.com\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2014-06-22T16:59:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T16:59:43","slug":"flickr-as-a-vehicle-of-narrative-photos-contextualised-in-space-and-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/2013\/01\/flickr-as-a-vehicle-of-narrative-photos-contextualised-in-space-and-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Flickr as a vehicle of narrative: photos contextualised in space and time"},"content":{"rendered":"

After my project proposal had been accepted, I have attended a workshop at ETH Zurich, titled “Cartography & Narratives”<\/a>\u00a0organised by Barbara Piatte, S\u00e9bastien Caquard and Anne-Kathrin Reuschel in last summer. The goal of the workshop was to explore “mapping as a conceptual framework to improve our understating of narratives”. Narratives are\u00a0\u201can expression in discourse of a distinct mode of experiencing and thinking about the world, its structures, and its processes\u201c (White 2010)\u00a0<\/span>or\u00a0<\/span>any cultural artefact that \u2018tells a story\u2019 (Bal 2009).<\/span><\/p>\n

I decided to investigate the photo-sharing platform Flickr as vehicle of narratives (think: the slide show of pictures from a trip, be it directly on the camera’s screen or as an image projected onto your living room wall, as one of arguably the\u00a0most ubiquitous types of every day narrative).<\/p>\n

I have uploaded a preliminary result of my workshop paper on Vimeo (view it large, for good quality):<\/p>\n