Suggested Title of Research Project
- The Impact of Advancing Technology on the Illustration Industry Today
- The Effects of Advancing Technology on our Society
- "My Phone Just Died" - The Growing (increasing?) Relationship We Have With (advancing?)Technology and it's effects on Society
- "I Can't Live Without My Phone" - A study into the impact and effects of our growing relationship with Technology
- The World of Digital and it's Impact on the Illustration Industry (practice?)
Notes:
Research timescale: - Technology advancement over the last decade?
- Technology advancement over the last century?
Focus on just one area of increasing technology? - Social media?
Significance
Technology and its advancements play such a huge part in our lives even on a hourly level, however I have never been one to question it and really look at the impact this is having on me and society around me. With technology advancing considerably at an increasing rate, I feel the effects this has on society and industries such as the illustration industry are vast, both good and bad and I feel it is important, interesting and relevant to research these effects and be more aware of them as a student.
Primary and Secondary Sources
Websites/articles/Quotes:
'Technology has become so advanced that people have forgotten about the basic principles of being human.' http://writing4media.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/where-do-you-draw-the-line/
Books:
The Technological society. / Ellul, Jacques (1967)
Websites/articles/Quotes:
'Technology has become so advanced that people have forgotten about the basic principles of being human.' http://writing4media.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/where-do-you-draw-the-line/
'The devices we use change the way we live much faster than any contest among genes.' http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/as-technology-gets-better-will-society-get-worse
'Our will-to-comfort, combined with our technological powers, creates a stark possibility. If we’re not careful, our technological evolution will take us toward not a singularity but a sofalarity. That’s a future defined not by an evolution toward superintelligence but by the absence of discomforts.' http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/as-technology-gets-better-will-society-get-worse
'According to data recorded in 2012 by Pew Research Group, 29% of cell owners describe their cell phone as “something they can’t imagine living without.” http://www.omahacentralregister.com/780/opinions/the-trouble-with-technology/#prettyPhoto
'It’s no wonder many people suffer from nomophobia, the fear of being without a mobile phone or without a cellular signal. Our phones and tablets have become weapons of mass distraction.' http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/embedded-systems/were-being-driven-to-distraction-by-clamorous-computing
'Technology is not just serving us, but in ways changing us as well.' http://www.globaltoynews.com/2012/09/retail-conundrum-looking-up-.html
'In conclusion, modern technologies can very well be a double-edged sword, from safety to connectedness. They do have their advantages, but as with many revolutionary inventions, they can radically change our lives, for better or worse.' http://www.teenink.com/nonfiction/academic/article/482544/Negative-Effects-of-Technology-on-Society/
The Technological society. / Ellul, Jacques (1967)
Cell phone culture: mobile technology in everyday life. / Goggin, Gerard (2006)
Future imperfect: technology and freedom in an uncertain world / Friedman, David (2011)
The singularity is near. / Kurzweil, Raymond (2006)
Tomorrow's people: how 21st century technology is changing the way we think and feel. / Greenfield, Susan (2003)
Mind change: how digital technologies are leaving their mark on our brains. / Greenfield, Susan (2014)
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Future minds: how the digital age is changing our mind, why this matters and what we can do about it. / Watson, Richard (2010)
Being digital. / Negroponte, Nicholas (1996)
The perils of progress: the health and environment hazards of modern technology and what you can do about them. / Laura, Ron & Ashton, John (1999)
The internet and society. / Slevin, James (2000)
Brave New World / Aldous Huxley
Methods
I will research into the effects of technology on the modern world and our society as a whole, forming an opinion, positive or negative. I will then aim to communicate the opinions I form in my own illustrations, supporting my argument in my resulting essay.
Supporting illustration ideas:
Illustrations with a message/deeper meaning
Themes - technology with a personality
- relationships with technology
- humanising technology
- sentimental technology
Supporting illustration ideas:
Illustrations with a message/deeper meaning
Themes - technology with a personality
- relationships with technology
- humanising technology
- sentimental technology
Limitations
I will be focusing on technology and its advancements over the last XXX years both on an indirect scale and a more direct scale with which society is most affected by. I hope to bring to light technology as a whole, and once I have researched into its effects on us in society - form an opinion of its advancements and wether we are independent or dependant, helped or hindered by the close relationship we are developing with it.
Indirect technological areas:
Space travel and exploration
Science, health and the curing of illnesses
(expand)
Space travel and exploration
Science, health and the curing of illnesses
(expand)
Direct technological areas:
Computer based technology advancement
Phones, music & mp3's, gaming
Communication
Business
(expand)
Computer based technology advancement
Phones, music & mp3's, gaming
Communication
Business
(expand)
Essay Plan
a) Introduction (300 words)
Introduction and explanation into why I have chosen to research this topic (why it is relevant, interesting and important) and what I am to cover.
Introduction and explanation into why I have chosen to research this topic (why it is relevant, interesting and important) and what I am to cover.
b) Main Body - (1600 words)
The effects of technology on society involving the history of advancing technology over the past xxx years and its effects on society as a result.
The effects of technology on society involving the history of advancing technology over the past xxx years and its effects on society as a result.
c) Visual Examples (800 words)
Mads Peitersen - "Art Meats Technology" series
Alex Gross - "Future Tense" series
Mads Peitersen - "Art Meats Technology" series
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| Mads Pietersen - Art Meats Technology series |
Alex Gross - "Future Tense" series
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| Felipe Luchi - Digital Jalihouse |
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| Joey Klarenbeek - Passive |
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| Powel Jonca - Nest |
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Pawel Kuczynski
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d) Conclusion (300 words)
Concluding the research I have found and forming an opinion on wether I feel the effects of advancing technology are good or bad for us as a society and what our future may hold if this continues.
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