Klipp, glue and fotofikling - Dagbladet.no

The mainstream media is struggling to keep up in the quest for dominance on the social web. I have previously written about how shareable are more important than clickability when a new generation of viral media services Upworthy and BuzzFeed builds tremendous traffic through presenting issues many will share in social media.

Some make it even easier, for example by to share historical photos they rapped on the web.

This is the recipe for success to youngsters Xavier Di Petta (17) and Kyle Cameron (19), which is behind the Twitter account @ HistoryInPics. In writing the account, which was created in July 2013, almost 1.1 million followers. By comparison, the renowned American online magazine Slate and the popular sharing service BuzzFeed both just over 750,000 followers.

17-year-old Di Petta has allered established his own company, with more staff and open trade, writes The Atlantic.

When something works out on the internet, it is copied. Competing accounts @ HistoryPics, @ HistoricalPics, HistoryInPix @, @ and @ History_Pics AncientPics doing the same, and the various accounts borrows quite shamelessly from each other. Several fast approaching one million followers, and several claim to be “original”.

Many of the images are shared by famous people from the culture, society and politics. Here parts Elvis, Frank Sinatra, Jimi Hendrix and Marilyn Monroe room with Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr. and Adolf Hitler.

also spec it with a wide range of spectacular and peculiar motives. It is played shamelessly and virtuoso on our urge an association with the past. Nostalgia is a keyword. In addition, it is often played on humor and sentimentality. Here are the cute kids and weird, ancient technology, comedy and tragedy.

People love it. According to Alexis C. Madrigal in The Atlantic divide messages from @ HistoryInPics an average of more than 1600 users, and favorite felt by more than 1,800.

common accounts is a very liberal intercourse with copyright.

practiced unrestrained cut-and-paste. Few of the images are credited, whether it is material that may be in the public domain or copyright-related photos taken by famous photographers who obviously are protected by copyright.

Photographic authenticity and correct history presentations are not in priority.

Gizmodo blogger Matt Novak is among those who have proven that manipulated images abound on @ HistoryInPics and other Twitter accounts, as they do also in Tumblr blogs, Reddit, and the viral web. He also spoke with one of the ablest jueksemakerne.

One of Novaks examples is a pic to imagine John Lennon and Che Guevara interacting with each guitar. But the head of Che is photoshopped into the picture. The person to the right of the original image is Wayne “Tex” Gabriel, guitarist Lennon’s Plastic Ono Band.

Novak publishes both the manipulated image to the original, which from what I have been able to ascertain the taken by Lennon’s close friend photographer Bob Gruen. But the picture is, ironically enough, not credited with Novak either.

Sometimes the photo fiddling in Photoshop, other times it just jug. The alleged image of the scientist Nikola Tesla who swim teacher is in fact a picture of a very different man.

To flatten and falsified history, while we are tricked into believing that we get insight.

Among faghistorikere it is this lack of scientific substance which is the biggest objection to image sharing. Trivia and tragedy equivalent. Iconic historical photographs vacuumed context and linked seldom or never to sources, says Rebecca Onion, who writes the history blog of the online magazine Slate.

It stings enough too little that two youngsters can get success in social media by compromising with the story, while professional historians struggle to get a minimum of attention for its efforts to explain the past, and thus help us understand the future.