Mobile Me and You Project (Photo Editing Apps) Interviews Part 19|Mobile Reputations Course| AD&PR Lab
In the context of “New Consuming Trends” a course of Panteion University, taught by Mrs Betty Tsakarestou, our team (Shooters) participated in a research project called Mobile Me and You, following the Mobile Collaborative Consumption and Sharing Economy trends.The subject of the project concerns the relationship of Millennials with their mobile phones and their impact on the society and on the market. We decided to focus our research on Photo Editing Apps Applications.
Let me remind you the questionnaire :
1.Describe your day with your mobile. How many hours during the
day (or night) do you estimate you use your phone? Some
smartphones now offer us this data (screen time). Have you been
surprised when your read your actual screen time? Have you tried to
eliminate your screen time, after you started getting such accurate
data about your mobile screen consumption?
2. How do you feel if for any reason we took the mobile phone away from you?
3. Do you use any complementary gadgets?
4. Do you favor your mobile over other devices?
5. Do you like to share stuff with others digitally via your mobile apps?
6. Do you use your mobile when you are with friends? Teams? In a
specific Community? For fun? For work? How that makes you feel?
7. Is your phone making you feel connected or disconnected?
8. Have you used sharing apps/ platforms/ services such as airbnb/
bike sharing/ car sharing etc.. How do you think or feel about such
interactions where you have to trust strangers?
9. Do you follow any influencers? If yes, in what platform (eg.instagram etc) Do you follow them on your mobile apps mainly? Can
you show me your favorite influencers profiles on your mobile? What
are your thoughts on influencers?
10. Do you feel like you share the same habits with your friends
regarding the usage of your phone?
About editing apps
- Which do you believe is the most important app?
- Do you know many editing apps? Is it necessary to pay for them or they are
free to use? - Are you using editing apps daily?
- Do you trust your mobile phone camera or you need to use edit apps inorder to post a photo in social media?
- Do you know any photo edit communities?
- How important are the editing apps for you?
- Do you believe that the quality of the photos would have been the samewithout editing?
- Do you use more than one editing app in your mobile phone?
- Do you believe that an editing app is easy to use if you are not a
professional?
Anatoli is a great example of an expert photo editor without being a professional. She helped us completing the research telling a few words about her smartphone life. Anatoli is 22 years old and she studies sociology in Panteion University. She owns a very inspirational page in Facebook called “Mes voyages” and she posts photos from every trip she is going to. She enjoys every day her smartphone because she can take pictures her dog, renewing her Instagram account and communicate with her friends, family and people from her job. She loves cycling and street walks and she follows many influencers on Instagram.
The most important editing app for her is InFrame and fortunately there are many free editing apps that someone who does not want to pay can use. Moreover, she told us that she uses them on a daily basis because they help her create something really good and beautiful. According to her, editing makes photos much better and she admits that she has 2 different editing apps in hers smartphone. In our last question, she answered that she did not have an idea before and after a small period of time editing photos, she considers herself very successful. So, she explains that those apps are very easy to use and gives a positive message to people that want to be more active on the photo editing part.
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Mes-voyages-2040455896224178/
The shooters
Team: Agis Lamprakis, petrosmix, Iakobos Vlachos
Professor: Betty Tsakarestou
For the other parts of the interviews click the links below:
