La construccion de la memoria familiar desde la fotografia del smartphoneun estudio etnográfico

Abstract

The present research is about how the photographic family memory is made using the smartphone, taking under consideration the digital competences for the development of sociotechnical practices of family photography.To study this, a virtual ethnography has been done, based on 30 in depth interviews with fathers, mothers, grandmothers, grandfathers, uncles or aunts, who were smartphone users since at least, the birth of a new family member; an analysis about use and stuffing of a smartphone and a virtual autoethnography to explain my sociotechnicals practices as the object/subject of the research.The theory, on which the thesis is based, is the concept of "mediated memories" by Van Djick’s (2007) technology and Jan Assmann's (2012 (1992)) approach to objects as mediators to access the past, in order, to conceptualize the smartphone as a technology of memory that plays a fundamental role in our process and construction of it, through photography...