Raziskava je opisano tukaj je vodil Scott R. McMaster, a Newfoundland born artist and educator now living in Montreal and a new Ph.D. in Art Izobraževanje at Concordia University. His dissertation ‘Crowdsourcing Global Culture: Visual Representation in the Age of Information’ was funded by the QC Government and has earned him the National Art Education Association’s prestigious ‘Elliot Eisner Doctoral Dissertation Award’, the highest accolade for an emerging scholar in the field of fine arts education.

Scott grew up in the small city of Corner Brook and discovering a love for photography enrolled in the Bachelor of Fine Arts program at Sir Wilfred Grenfell Visoka šola za umetnost. There he dabbled in just about every area of visual arts and majored in photography and multimedia/sculpture, diplomiral leta 2000.

Scott nato zapustil rodno mesto za potovanje in poučevati v tujini, v Aziji in Korea. Živel je, delal in je potoval več kot osem let in se vrnil v svoj študij v 2008 later completing a Mojstri za izobraževanje na področju informacijske tehnologije from Memorial University in 2010.

 

Scott je fotografiranje svet iz njegove edinstvene perspektive za več 15 let in je razstavljena v Kanadi in Aziji. Njegove fotografije raziskovanje abstraktne pokrajine odpadkov in sledite de-razvoj-umetnih materialov, igranje na pojmi gledalcev v pripovedi in tradicionalne lepote. Njegov trenutni akademske raziskave vključuje uporabo crowdsourcing tehnologije in raziskav, ki temeljijo na podobi za raziskovanje učinkov globalizacije. Študij posnetke iz celega sveta skozi objektiv popularne vizualne kulture upa razkriti strategije za poučevanje vizualne pismenosti in načine za povezovanje kritično oceno vizualne kulture v formalnih in neformalnih učnih okoljih. He also enjoys hiking, potuje in raziskuje nove kulture.