New Features of Visual Anthropology in Mobile Short Video Communities
With the maturity of the fifth-generation mobile communication technology,the ships in the video age are pushed into the deep water zone.The development and transformation of new media technologies have led to new methods for image recording,making the communication of mobile video a normalcy of media life.The media life in the short video community has ushered in a new field for the traditional research on visual anthropology.The boundary between the self and the other disappears,the combined force of"all-people"images record and witness the times,the visual relay forms an image narrative,and the devel-opment of technology will empower the new advantages of the discipline.Virtual field research will become a necessary skill for future anthropologists.Various changes will bring new opportunities and challenges to visual anthropology.
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