What’s lost when we photograph life instead of experiencing it?

Images are taking over our lives, but at what cost?
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At a conference on June 14, Facebook executive Nicola Mendelsohn predicted that the social networking site would be “all video” within five years.

“We’re seeing a year-on-year decline of text,” she said. “If I was having a bet, I’d say: video, video, video.”

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Rebecca Macmillan
About the Author
Rebecca Macmillan is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin, and currently the Assistant Editor of Texas Studies in Literature and Language. Her dissertation looks at contemporary poetry projects that incorporate visual materials and employ archival strategies to document ordinary forms of present-day crisis. Her broader research and teaching interests include: poetry and poetics, theories of the archive, photography, feminist and affect studies, and memoir.