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The people versus technology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Mike Pringle
Mike Pringle*
Affiliation:
AHDS Visual Arts, Falkner Road, Farnham, Surrey GU9 7DS, UK
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Email: mike@vads.ahds.ac.uk
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Abstract

How can the many and various members of the arts education community get the digital images they need, in a world where intellectual property rights issues, lack of co-ordination, poor quality, erratic standards and insubstantial support are the norm? Perhaps we should think about whether we focus too much on the technology in Information Communication Technology. Are we guilty of flooding the internet with innovative new products instead of facing up to the fact that most of the issues in finding digital images are to do with people processes: informing and communicating?

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Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 31 , Issue 3 , 2006 , pp. 16 - 20
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2006

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