ABSTRACT
Contemporary digital photography exists in an ecosystem of social media services, technologies, individuals, and in a vast stream of content in constant change. This poses a challenge for heritage organisations working with photographic collections. This chapter focuses on the best-practices that have emerged from the Nordic project Collecting Social Photo and looks specifically into how museums and archives can find sustainable ways to document photographic practices in the age of social media. Also, it addresses the question as to how roles, motivations and methods in documentation should change to better accommodate the networked, fluid, ephemeral and communicative nature of the social digital photograph.
