Is there a difference?

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This column most certainly isn't the place to continue my examination of the differences between digital natives and immigrants. Even though I don't really accept this distinction, however, I do find myself wondering whether children born into the era of digital photography relate differently to photographs than someone of my age. I can no longer ask my grandparents what value photographs held for them. Perhaps we can assume that the fact that they kept them in albums showed that they really were "valuable" in their eyes. The fact that I no longer feel compelled to save photos in albums doesn't necessarily mean that I don't "value" them, but I could understand someone assuming that to be the case. Someone must be studying the ways in which today's children, so totally inundated with images, perceive these artifacts of memory. Do they place upon them the same emotional or sentimental value that someone of my generation does?

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Go to: How do you like your photos?, or
Go to: The shoebox advantage.