From Family Albums to Global Search Engines: Translating Family Photographs for the Digital Age

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From Family Albums to Global Search Engines: Translating Family Photographs for the Digital Age

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Victoria University of Wellington

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This thesis examines the ways digital photo-sharing platforms adopt, use and challenge the discourse of the material family album as a way of demonstrating the uses for new media within the private sphere. It analyses the digital photo-sharing platforms of Picasa and Shutterfly, platforms which often take contrasting approaches to negotiating the relationship between material and digital cultures. By examining these platforms in terms of the way they reference and use the discourse of the mat...

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Scholarly text / Thesis

Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2012

Creator

Johnson, Sophie

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https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/From_Family_Albums_to_Global_Search_Engines_Translating_Fami...

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Media studies / Discourse / Photographs / New media / School: School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies / Media Studies / Marsden: 420304 Screen and Media Studies / Marsden: 420302 Cultural Theory / Degree Discipline: Media Studies / Degree Level: Masters / Degree Name: Master of Arts

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