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Research Methodology

Research starting point:

How to increase the awareness of Type 1 Diabetes in Young Adults.

·   Possible methods for research:

• Meeting with doctors and nurses who specialise in dealing with this area.
• Looking at what information is already out there (In books and the internet)
• Researching statistics related to Type 1 Diabetes and Young Adults.

·   Collaborative methods:

I could try and collaberate with support websites that focus on helping Young Adults, however I haven’t found any that focus on that. I could see if I could collaberate with other Young Adult support sites or a larger site aimed at all people with Diabetes.

·   Using digital tools:

I could use Twitter to connect with other people in a similar situation as myself, or groups/websites that focus on people in my situation. I could use pinterest to show visually what websites and support is out there already.

·   Gathering Primary evidence:

I think the internet would be the best way to gather my research as the diabetic community in my local area isn’t as large as the one I can access over the interent. I also want to look and see what support books are available for Young Adults and what support groups there are for other Young Adults with different diseases. I would also like to use polls and questionnaires on internet forums to widen my research pool.

·   Which methods would be best:

I think looking at what psychical support (books, support groups) will not be as helpful as looking at information on the internet, as most Young Adults would turn to internet support before going to their doctor or the library (in most cases)

·   Issues or difficulties with this method:

The problem with using mostly research from the internet, it can be difficult to be certain of the information’s reliability. Because the internet is an anonymous place, the information I collect cannot always be verified for it’s credibility.  This could be said for other types of research, but is more rife in information collected from the internet.

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The pros and cons of Type 1 Diabetes

Cons

• Hospital
• Doctors
• Prescriptions
• Stabbing oneself several times a day
• No more gorging on chocolate
• Glucose tablets
• Hypos
• Have to plan EVERYTHING
• Can no longer have Bourbons whenever I please ;_;
• Did I mention the stabbing?

Pros

• …Um… yeah…

Remaining Lectures

• Signs and codes can be complex, powerful, and their significance can change in different contexts
• Hyper-reality, the fiction has become real
• Pre-Enlightenment: the miraculous power of objects
• Industrial revoloution
• French revoloution - destroyed aristocracy, monarchy and church
• People stopped believing in the bible.
• All religion linked together (Mithras)
• The teapot orbiting the sun- God is a teapot
• Divine watchmaker - God designed our eyes
• Scott Fitzgerald- ‘An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional’
• Time is elastic

And to end, DANIEL DAY LEWIS!

The end!

Lecture Twelve: Later Photography

Russian

• Photographs more instanteneous than other mediums
• FSA
• Wanted to create a new photographic asthetic
• Rodchenko- concious about creating very photographic images, photographs are constructed images, very believable and lifelike, Rodchenko wanted to make sure people knew his images were constructed, often looking up or down

Stairs

Mosselprom building

Girl with a leica

• Russian photography a response to communism, embracing modernity

French

• Royograms/Photograms - making images by putting objects on photographic paper
• Man Ray, famous for solorisation, puts a halo around things, playing around with photographic process

• French phtography (inventors of it) as an art form (Russians and Americans saw it politically, modernity, new way of seeing things) more artistic
• Atget - took snapshots of Paris, used antiqued equipment, quirky view on the world

• Henri Cartier Bresson known informally as the greatest photographer of all time, the decisive moment, pioneered 35 mm SLR camera, genuinely fruity (not my words) his photos would have been terrible if they were taken a split second earlier/later

• Robert Cappa - threw himself into war, was the only photographer to land with the first wave at Normandy (D Day) Photos were ruined, only recently been remastered, established Magnum photography with Henri. Walked into a minefield on an Indo-China road, taking a pictures of troops marching on.

British

• Strongest connection between photography and cinema
• Social Realist (Painting people in social situations) strong socialist history, strong sense of social responsibility, social realism in British photography/cinema
• Tony Ray Jones - records life without political agenda, class differences fuelled social realism

• Martin Parr - went out and photograped the working class, criticised for looking down on them

• Nick Waplington, Living Room- moved into eastate to get closer to the people he photographed, strikes a chord

• Richard Billingham- took photographs of his family, captured humanity