Tag: instagram

  • Ideas for Instagram web profiles

    Instagram, the popular photo-sharing app for mobile devices, has finally come to the web. While the app continues to be one you use only on a mobile device – currently iOS or Android devices – to take photos, manipulate them…

  • FIR Interview: Brian McNely on Instagram as a medium for image-power

    FIR Interview: Brian McNely on Instagram as a medium for image-power

    Brian J. McNely, an assistant professor in the Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Media program at the University of Kentucky, posted a pre-publication draft of a study he conducted on the use of Instagram to build an organization’s “image-power.” The methodology…

  • Instagram mainstream at US political conventions

    The biggest media events in four years take place this week in the US with the Republican Party convention in Tampa, Florida, followed by the Democratic Party convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, next week. In the year when a new…

  • Democratizing visual expression

    As someone who only recently discovered Instagram when the Android version of the popular iPhone app was released a few months ago, I’m a compulsive snapper at any moment that I can whip out my smartphone. The beauty of Instagram…