Digital Arts and Humanities Brown Bag Series

Digital Arts and Humanities Brown Bag Series

Presented by the Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities (IDAH)

Thursday, March 24

12-1 p.m.

IDAH Conference Room Wells E170D

(To the left of the elevators in the East Tower)

“Ethnography in Digital Environments: Theory, Practice, and Teaching”

Panel Discussion With:

David Hakken

School of Informatics

For Thirty years now, my ethnography has focused on the relationship between social change and the use of Digital Technologies. After briefly describing the trajectory of my research career, I will discuss several current research projects and what they suggest about the dynamics of contemporary social formation reproduction.

Gracia Clark

Department of Anthropology

Dozens of devout Muslim laymen and women from Kumasi, Ghana volunteered to record video interviews for a website on West African Islam, aimed at high school and small college students and teachers in the United States. Many addressed the imagined US public directly through the camera, explaining the most important values in Islam and the phenomenon of suicidal violence as they understood them. I will address how questions of reciprocity, confidentiality and representation emerge in this context, as well as new obligations and responsibilities for ethnography.

Ilana Gershon

Department of Communication and Culture

I am going to talk about some of the methodological quandaries that emerged when studying how people use new media to end romantic relationships. I will talk about how interviewing people about breakups was a productive lens for asking questions about people's media ideologies and experiences of remediation. I will also talk about the limitations of studying what is often a private ritual. 

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