Nathan: Traditional and dominant social media were organized around the traditional notion of the photograph, which is an art object. He says that in ephemeral social media, that ends is just left to fade away. Nathan: Every new technological invention has been about making more photos. This way the photos that we do choose to keep forever can really be more permanent, he says.
Social Media theorist Nathan Jurgenson wants us to understand what is truly revolutionary about ephemeral photographs and platforms like Snapchat, Fred Ritchin says we are going to get our minds blown “After Photography” and Finn Bruntun explains why we need to preserve our transition from Analog to Digital.