Smartphone photography and its socio-economic life in China: An ethnographic analysis

The smartphone is perhaps one of the few items that can define our time in terms its ubiquity and mobility. photographic feature various types smartphones has also drawn attention consumers manufacturers recent years, with consecutive upgrades built-in cameras, photo-editing sharing apps. From taking, retouching, to publishing a photograph, photography, coupled social media, become important understanding relationships between digital image sociality, aesthetics identity. This article examines several new developments such as rise ‘professional amateurs’ selfie within Chinese context. It then attempts develop theories photography incorporate these developments. Using ethnographic analysis interviews, this aims theorize series practices reveal local individual specifications traverse technicity, sociality aesthetics. shows how had significant impact on people’s economic life.