Tutorial Two: Digital Imaging

Ways that digital images are stored transferred and manipulated using information technology:
Hardware and software I'm familiar with: Memory sticks, hard drives, adobe
Three examples of the use of digital imaging to provide information and recording:
1. Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/. Facebook provides users with a way of uploading there digital images for others to view and comment on.
2. Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/. Myspace provides that same as facebook but they are slightly different in the way various parts of them work e.g uploading photos, different homepages etc. Facebook is also a lot newer than myspace.
3. Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/. Youtube is a way of uploading videos of digital imaging for others to view for their own entertainment or information.

"A new technology is rarely superior to an old one in every future"
Discuss this statement in relation to digital camera technology. The pluses and minuses digital camera technology holds in relation to more traditional film based cameras?
* Cheaper for printing
*new camera's are more disposable
*with new camera's you can lose the image with a press of a button
*can store a lot more photo's
*very simple to capture and transfer images.
*dark room developing with old camera's
*older camera's are manual, new camera's are manual and auto.

Given the prevalence of image capturing and distribution using IT, what ethical issues may arise with their use?
*privacy.
*ownership (the person who owns the camera owns that photo).
* informed consent.

Briefly discuss some of the ways that digital images could, or are, being used in occupational therapy practice:
*photos for use of treatment and interventions
*visual changes and progress of client's
*photos of events that the client might need to remember
* there are videos on YouTube demonstrating what occupational therapy is all about and also one demonstrating a transfer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiXb1dz0KTw