Content tagged "ethnography"
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Posted by Vicky Zeamer S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2018
Topics: ethnography, expertise, food, Internet, narrative, photography, social mediaInternet Killed the Michelin Star: The Motives of Narrative and Style in Food Text Creation on Social Media
While the underlying purpose of the construction and consumption of food texts remain the same from analog to digital form, the authority of food culture and its complimentary narrative control has shifted as a result of the convergence of food texts and digital media affordances.
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Posted by Elise Chen and Liz Koslov
Podcast: Liz Koslov, “Mapping Climate Change: Contested Futures in New York City’s Flood Zone”
In New York City hundreds of thousands of people and billions of dollars in property lie in a high-risk flood zone, but FEMA flood maps minimize the risk.
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Posted by Alyssa Smith
Topics: community, ethnography, Internet, LGBT, speech, The DiscourseThe Discourse: An Online Debate
This thesis examines the ways in which The Discourse parallels and inherits from older debates and schisms within the LGBT community.
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Event: Thursday, March 31, 2016 @ 5:00 pm
Lisa Glebatis Perks: “Media Marathoning and Affective Involvement”
Merrimack College’s Lisa Perks draws from discourse gathered from over 100 marathoners to describe some of marathoners’ most common emotional experiences, including anger, empathy, parasocial mourning, nostalgia, and regret.
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Posted by Kathryn O'Neill
Looking for Change, Online and Off-Center
Professors T.L. Taylor and Ian Condry are exploring the connections between online and offline worlds through the Creative Communities Initiative.
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Posted by Candis Callison S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2002
How Climate Change Comes to Matter: The Communal Life of Facts
“In this innovative ethnography, Candis Callison examines the initiatives of social and professional groups as they encourage diverse American publics to care about climate change.”
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Posted by Denise Cheng S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2014
Topics: economics, ethnography, labor, law, peer economy, sharing economyReading Between the Lines: Blueprints for a Worker Support Infrastructure in the Peer Economy
At its best, the peer economy can reintegrate people who are defined out of the traditional workplace. At its worst, it exploits human labor and degrades human dignity.
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Posted by Sasha Costanza-Chock and Rogelio Lopez
Podcast and liveblog: Sonia Livingstone, “The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age”
LSE’s Sonia Livingstone on how powerful forces of social reproduction result in missed opportunities for many youth in the risk society.
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Event: Thursday, November 7, 2013 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Sonia Livingstone: “The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age”
Sonia Livingstone will examine how powerful forces of social reproduction result in missed opportunities for many youth in the risk society.
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Posted by Bonnie Nardi, Tom Boellstorff, Celia Pearce and T.L. Taylor
Words with Friends: Writing Collaboratively Online
Here we discuss the means by which, after a good deal of trial and error, we found effective procedures for our collaboration.
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre
Podcast: Mary L. Gray, “Size Is Only Half the Story: Valuing the Dimensionality of BIG DATA”
Recent provocations about the role of “big data” in human communication research and technology studies deserve an outline of the value of anthropology, as a particular kind of “big data”.
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Posted by Tom Boellstorff, Bonnie Nardi, Celia Pearce and T.L. Taylor
Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method
A concise, comprehensive, and practical guide for students, teachers, designers, and scholars interested in using ethnographic methods to study online virtual worlds.
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre
Podcast, Craig Watkins: “Exploring the Digital Practices of Black and Latino Youth”
Craig Watkins studies young people’s social and digital media behaviors. He teaches at the University of Texas, Austin.
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre
Podcast: David Kelley, “The Color of Seawater Through a Picture Window”
David Kelley primarily works with digital video installation and photography, with recent projects involving performance and sculpture.
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre and T.L. Taylor
Podcast: T.L. Taylor, “Professional Play and the E-sports Industry”
Based on extensive qualitative research, T.L. Taylor’s talk explores the nature of professional computer game play.