Digital cameras and domestic photography: Communication, agency and structure

Visual Communication

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 123-146

  Cobley, Paul ^a   Haeffner, Nick ^a  

^a LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'Affordance'; 'Language'; Agency; Digital democracy; Digital literacy; Genre; Idiom; Nonverbal communication; Politics of representation; Structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 65449137487     PISSN: 14703572     EISSN: 17413214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1470357209102110     Document Type: Article

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