Mobile Me and You Project (Photo Editing Apps) Part 20|Mobile Reputations Course| AD&PR Lab
In the context of “New Consuming Trends” a course of Panteion Univeristy, 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 Μillennials 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.
My first interview for the course of Mobile Reputations, Collaborative Consumption in Sharing Economy, coordinated by Mrs. Betty Tsakarestou, was my good friend Christos Trikouzas.
Thats the complete questionnaire that we used :
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?
Christos is 22 years old and he ‘s a student at International and European Studies Department, at Panteion University. Christos has a really good relationship with his phone and his daily phone usage can be estimated between 4–5 hours. When he wakes up , check his phone for messages and notifications is the first thing to do. When he gets bored throughout the day, he just scrolls his Facebook or Instagram Newsfeed. He admits thought that following the news, chatting and keep up with friends are keys to his daily Phone usage.Once he tried to reduce his screen time but, as everyone, he didn’t make it.
He also tells me that he don’t use any app for work or college but he s using his cell phone to exchange notes with his colleagues. Most useful app for him is Google maps and he uses it almost everyday, since he s moving with a car.
The 3 apps that uses to share Stuff with others is (Surprise — Surprise) Facebook, Instagram and finally
E-mail app. He usually shares news from all around the globe, researches, videos or Funny pictures (aka memes).
As an amateur photographer, his favorite Photo editing apps, are Pixlr App, Photo Editor App and Ps App that s not for free. He manly works with Pixlr app, and he also claims that he uses this app about 2–3 times a week.
“My phone has a sweet camera, especially in the daylight, but sometimes I like to make my pictures look more vintage, so that is why I use editing apps. Maybe the quality is better with editing but one photo must look pretty good even without it.”
He believes that anyone can learn the basic features of an editing app so everyone can be part of a Photography community.
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Professor: Betty Tsakarestou
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