Smartphones allow us to capture nature like never before – but are they also distorting our view?
- Written by Gemma Blackwood, Lecturer, Media, University of Tasmania
ShutterstockEven if you weren’t lucky enough to spot the aurora light shows visible across southern Australia this week (and which may potentially reappear in coming days), you probably did encounter the onslaught of online news articles and photos that followed.
Just 35 years ago, however, this wouldn’t have been the case. Even digital...





