The Networked Audience : Algorithms, affordances, and why digital photographs are only a small part of digital photography

Will Boase

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Thesis of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2022 Master Photography & Society As photographers we make, sell and consume digital images, and the digital space and its audiences are growing exponentially. But every conversation on circulating photography centres on the object, about books or exhibitions. It seemed like there are images, and there is photography. Why are the two diverging? Radio evolved into podcasts. TV turned into TikTok. This thesis, then, sets out to ask what it is that photography says it does, or thinks it does, and what it actually does in the age of the smartphone. Critics love to tell their readers that photography is dead, but for some reason you can find all those same critics cheerfully posting their lunch on Instagram. This thesis is an invitation and a challenge to photography, to admit that things have changed and to embrace this as an opportunity rather than a threat.

type	research exposition
keywords	DIGITAL IMAGING, PHOTOGRAPHY, distribution, publishing, circuitum, Master Photography & Society
date	12/10/2022
published	21/05/2025
last modified	21/05/2025
status	published
share status	private
affiliation	Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
copyright	Will Boase
license	All rights reserved
language	English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1759960/1759959
published in	Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
portal issue	0. Publications 2022
external link	www.willboase.com

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The Networked Audience : Algorithms, affordances, and why digital photographs are only a small part of digital photography (2025)