@article { author = {Masdari, Fatemeh and Hosseini Sarvari, Seyed Hasan}, title = {The aesthetics of Instagram: Exploring the aesthetics of visual and semantic aspects of Instagram}, journal = {Journal of Cyberspace Studies}, volume = {5}, number = {1}, pages = {59-78}, year = {2021}, publisher = {University of Tehran on behalf of the "Cyberspace Research Policy Center" and the "UNESCO Chair on Cyberspace and Culture: Dual Spacization of the World"}, issn = {2588-5499}, eissn = {2588-5502}, doi = {10.22059/jcss.2021.325552.1060}, abstract = {The article presents the results of an aesthetic study of content and visual forms on Instagram, a relatively new social media platform. The study focuses on how the products of digital technology, understood as new artifacts within the postmodern aesthetic framework, have been taken up within the digital culture. The results of the research help us to understand the characteristics of this new social media platform, indicating that Instagram has been highly successful in changing aesthetic criteria and standards and creating new aesthetic forms and content.}, keywords = {Aesthetics,Filtering,Instagram,IPhoneography,Nostalgia}, url = {https://jcss.ut.ac.ir/article_83943.html}, eprint = {https://jcss.ut.ac.ir/article_83943_b8ba83a929fc2e1012b3eb08f2fa8c86.pdf} }