Lev Manovich's Instagram Study in The Atlantic

What Revolution Looks Like on Instagram

The Atlantic, 10.17.14

Lev Manovich poses the following questions in his Instagram study of 'The Exceptional & The Everyday: 144 Hours in Kiev.' But what if you had switched social networks? What if your lens for viewing the revolution hadn't been Twitter or Facebook, but something else? Manovich, a computer-science professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, in his latest visual study "explores the ways in which the photo-sharing service Instagram captured daily life alongside extreme strife during the headiest days of Euromaidan in February."