On the Change of Perceptual Dispositions Influences of Resonance and Algorithmicity on Image Communication. Part 2

Abstract

The relevance and significance of image communication, especially in juvenile lifeworlds, has been increasing permanently since the implementation of video clip culture in the mid-1980s. Currently, a further dynamization in the production and use of images is discernible, especially in the context of relationship management and self-narration in social networks. We will reflect on whether and which dispositions or formatting change or modify previous patterns of perception through the use of current media. For example, Katja Gunkel (2018, 39) assumes that the principles of reality generation used have an influence on popular imagery. Specifically, current image practices through digitalization (algorithmization), the use of mobile media, the use of microformats, as well as the specifics of software applications or Internet platforms (TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram) are reflected on possible influencing factors, on the other hand, the view is directed to point out potentials or resources of self-directed appropriation possibilities of the virtual lifeworld in the context of everyday practices and their resonances and/or media pedagogical impulses. The focus is also on whether there are or can be visual cultures in the digital lifeworld “that elude explicit rules and thus also algorithmic processing” (Richter und Allert 2017, 238). This is illustrated by the example of two media-pedagogical projects.