iPhone时代：拍还是不拍？.doc.doc

iPhone时代:拍还是不拍?

JetBlue Flight 1416 was just minutes into its trip from Long Beach, Calif., to Austin, Tex., on Sept. 18 when Scott Welch, a passenger in Seat 5A, heard a suspicious pop. Moments later, smoke began to fill the cabin, clogging1) the air to the point that he could see only a few rows in front of him. The starboard2) engine of the Airbus A320, he soon learned, had blown.
As other passengers began to cry, and pray, Mr. Welch strapped on his oxygen mask and pondered his fate.
“I understood that I might be going to meet God,” Mr. Welch, 34, recalled. He thought, “If this is my time, this is my time.”
Faced with his own mortality, he could have closed his eyes in quiet reflection. Instead, Mr. Welch, a sports photographer, responded in a distinctly 2014 manner: He reached for his Samsung Galaxy Note 3 smartphone, thrust3) it into the murky4) air and pressed the record button. He even found the presence of mind5) to record a smiling selfie. 韦尔奇的自拍
Never mind that the plane landed safely soon after, making the mechanical failure a relative nonevent6). The pulse-quickening, you-are-there footage captured by Mr. Welch and other passengers helped propel the story to national news. Mr. Welch
’s two brief videos, meanwhile, went viral; one attracted more than one million views.
It is no longer enough to record seemingly every last moment of life with your smartphone, it seems. Near death is fair game7), too.
Thanks to the Personal Video plex―tens of millions of video-enabled smartphones, feeding countless hours daily to video-sharing behemoths8) like YouTube―rock concerts, presidential inaugurations, fourth-grade school plays and even midair near disasters can all be considered “content” now, inspiring us all to tap our inner Edward R. Murrow9) and record the event for posterity10).
But even as public gatherings, from the world-historical to the intimate, evolve into a sea of glowing blue screens, a backlash has started to take root. An im