Digital Ethnography

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The digital age of man has allowed individuals of all backgrounds to record and capture millions of once-in-a-lifetime memories with the ability to be copied, shared, and accessed by innumerable numbers of people worldwide. Snapshots of birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, and vacations can now all be stored in online databases such as iCloud or Photobucket. The drive to retain information has surpassed the abilities of the human mind and leapt into the need to record every experience worth remembering. The problem occurs when the interference of a phone or a video-recording device takes away from the experience itself. Before the age of social media and the internet, the ability to share photos or videos was limited. Film was developed and