I just saw this on Jason’s blog and thought I would have a go too. It’s a tag cloud of my dissertation, no surprise to see photographs as the biggest word!

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The emergence of digital technologies has not only changed the processing and printing of photographic images but also transformed the way we record, interpret and interact with the world. Thanks to cheap and easy to use recording devices, the cost of taking photographs has declined, making technology more accessible.
This development of digital technologies has arguably [...]

I found this at the end of an interesting article/interview. It’s very related to my dissertation, final project and i guess a bit of my 4D project. Link: http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i23/23a03001.htm
The actual article is about Lifelogging. Jim Gemmell, who leads lifelogging projects for Microsoft Research, says that we will one day glean information from our own lives [...]

One sample chapter complete another 6000 words to go! I have now made a good stab at my dissertation, completing a sample chapter on the family album. The chapter investigates the ways in which we use and encounter images on a daily basis. It discusses the emotional involvement with the family album and whether the [...]

I have submitted my Abstract to Geoff now, alongside my Chapter outline. Each week I seem to drift on to new stuff, really unsure where things are going but I am finding the process of researching interesting.
Have the converging boundaries between mass media and personal albums changed the emotional affect of the photographic image?
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The emergence [...]

Well after various ideas surrounding the impact of digital technologies on the photographic image I have pin pointed an idea, unsure if its final but I needed to get something on paper. Below is my proposal:
We had this belief in photography, but this is about to disappear because of the computer. It can re-create something [...]