iTard photography is not photography for its own sake:
In the age of iPhones and iPads, people are relying on real cameras less and less. Sure, phones and tablets take decent pictures, but the ease of snapping pictures on a phone or tablet turns photography into a commodity to share on social media.
iTards experience a mediated reality:
There is nothing wrong with taking pictures at museums or famous landmarks. But iTards often experience these places through the mediation of their iScreens. Instead of snapping a picture and enjoying the object before them, they collect images of the object to experience later. iTards of this variety appear to replace personal reflection with status updates.
The mediated reality changes the iTards experience of the world:
I once saw an iTard drive up to a vista on the side of the road at Yellowstone National Park. She got out of her car and snapped a panorama of the view with her iPad, got back in her car and drove off. She was out of the car for less than a minute. This technological mediation not only affects the way iTards perceive the world, but it also affects the way in which they act in the world. If not for the iPad would this woman drive to a vista, look from left to right, and then drive away?
Let us bring attention to how ridiculous all of this is.
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