A Holistic View on Future Snapshot Media

In this paper, we describe our previous and current work on people’s everyday photography, or more broadly: snapshot media. The digital revolution, wide availability of internet connections, and mobile phones as media creation devices are changing the way people create and use media. We identify three phenomena that will shape the future of snapshot media: the heterogeneity of current technical environment (especially in mobile media), the future role of paper, and the association of information with snapshot media in the form of metadata, context information, and user tagging. To design and do research in this heterogeneous environment we propose a more holistic view in studying people’s media creation and use.