TY - JOUR ID - 83943 TI - The aesthetics of Instagram: Exploring the aesthetics of visual and semantic aspects of Instagram JO - Journal of Cyberspace Studies JA - JCSS LA - en SN - 2588-5499 AU - Masdari, Fatemeh AU - Hosseini Sarvari, Seyed Hasan AD - PhD of Art Research, Al-Zahra University, Tehran, Iran AD - Sharif University of Technology, Department of Philosophy of Science, Tehran, Iran Y1 - 2021 PY - 2021 VL - 5 IS - 1 SP - 59 EP - 78 KW - Aesthetics KW - Filtering KW - Instagram KW - IPhoneography KW - Nostalgia DO - 10.22059/jcss.2021.325552.1060 N2 - 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. UR - https://jcss.ut.ac.ir/article_83943.html L1 - https://jcss.ut.ac.ir/article_83943_b8ba83a929fc2e1012b3eb08f2fa8c86.pdf ER -