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Carol McKay is a senior lecturer in photography history and theory in the Northern Centre of Photography, University of Sunderland. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge and has previously worked at Goldsmiths, University of London and University of Wales Institute, Cardiff. Her current research interests focus on changing patterns of commissioning, exhibiting and disseminating contemporary photography and the relationship between social engagement and developing forms of social media. In collaboration with Professor Arabella Plouviez, she is researching the role of the photographer in the age of the networked image, examining how practitioners adapt and respond to changing technologies. She is co-editor of a new volume of essays The Versatile Image: Photography, Digital Technologies and the Internet (Berg, 2013) and, in collaboration with Professor Arabella Plouviez, she is researching the role of the photographer in the age of the networked image, examining how practitioners adapt and respond to changing technologies. Carol is project manager of the North East Photography Network (www.northeastphoto.net) and she is co-curating the first international festival of photography and lens-based arts taking place in venues across Sunderland and the North East of England in 2013, supported by Arts Council of England. Originally trained as an art historian, she continues to research and write about contemporary artists and traditions of walking practice.