ANTH 1002 Study Guide - Digital Image

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Filipino facebook users see social media in a different way than westerners. The choice of profile picture is more than just an image picked out randomly, it is a representation of the reality to define identity. Facebook tracks and builds a profile representing users interactions, and the choice of the digital image is certainly a great part of the transformation in personhood. The use of historical images in the philippines is mostly use to show facebook friends and friends of friends where they come from, their roots, and what is theirs, what belongs in the filipino nation. This photograph expresses homesickness and nostalgia for their hometown"s past. (mckay 2010:490), talking about the photograph of a haunted house. The people living in or coming from the town of baguio used the image to show their online contacts a bit of their past. 2012:493) unlike westerners, filipinos use historical photographs to build a new image of themselves.

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