Story provided by The Atlantic Cities – Our cities, neighborhoods, and favorite spaces have never been quite so widely photographed before. Anyone with a smart phone now has a camera. Anyone with Instagram is a faux-fine-art photographer. And any old subject – a puddle of water, a yellow school bus – suddenly demands we capture … Continue reading
Twitter and Instagram are becoming popular social platforms among blacks. Among black Internet users, 26% use Twitter, far outpacing whites (14%) and Hispanics (19%). In August 2011, 18% of black Internet users were using Twitter. Women favor Pinterest. The gender difference in social-media usage was most noticeable in Pinterest, an online pinboard. A quarter of female Internet … Continue reading
The image above is a screenshot from the PictureHealing website. The app is designed to develop community awareness and support through photo sharing on iPhones. The app is angled toward non-profits and helping their efforts to get their missions out to the masses. It’s a very noble idea. But is it solving a problem? How viable … Continue reading