"I Want to See Those Memories": Social Affordances of Mobile Phone Cameras and Social Network Sites in Collegiate Drinking.

ABSTRACT: Alcohol use remains a prominent feature of American collegiate social life. Emerging technological developments, particularly the proliferation of mobile phone cameras and the easy sharing of digital images on social network sites, are now widely integrated into these drinking practices. This paper presents an exploratory study examining how 40 students on a mid-sized college campus in the interior Pacific Northwest incorporate these technologies into their drinking activities. Data from semi-structured interviews are considered within the theoretical framework of 'affordances', which classifies material technologies (camera phones, social network sites) as simultaneously inhabiting the role of artifact shaped by human action and of object that influences human conduct. Our data suggest th

SUBMITTER: Quintero G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6596425 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature