Via the Royal Anthropological Institute ‘photography + (con) text’ is pleased to announce a call for papers and visual submissions for a conference on ‘Photography in Academic Research’ to be hosted by UCL Museum and Heritage Studies, Institute of Archaeology, in collaboration with RAI (Royal Anthropological Institute) and Birkbeck,Continue Reading
Via Gabriela Nicolescu, Goldsmiths Exhibition organised by the Goldsmith’sDepartment of Anthropology Venue: Weston Atrium, Stuart Hall Building, Goldsmiths Private View: 24th May, 17.30 Dates: 25th May – 6th of June Opening Times: Mon-Sat 9.00-21.00 The exhibition presents the result of our ethnographic project Austerity Bites conducted by the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths,Continue Reading
Ethnographic Apps/ Apps as Ethnography: Exploring Possibilities for a Locative, Multimedia and Collaborative Future. A Panel Proposal for the American Anthropological Association (AAA) Meetings, November 2015 Panel Organizers: Sam Collins (Towson) and Matthew Durington (Towson) We find it curious that anthropologists have paid relatively little attention to apps. Yes, thereContinue Reading
Digital Ethnography Research Centre, School of Media and Communication and the Centre for Urban Research (Beyond Behaviour Change research program), School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University The Inhabiting Buildings project adopts an innovative participatory research methodology to map and promote change in the RMIT community to improveContinue Reading
In October I attended the 13th annual Association of Internet Researchers conference (AoIR or IR13) which was held in Salford, England at the University of Salford in the heart of the new home of the BBC, Media City UK. As a conference, AoIR has always been at the cutting edge scholarship on internet researchContinue Reading
School of Media and Communication, RMIT University Australia Application deadline: 31 October 2012 This three-year scholarship is for a PhD candidate will contribute to the fieldwork for an ethnographic study of mobile and social media in 1-2 Pacific countries. S/he will spend at least 12 months over the three yearsContinue Reading
Chamada para artigos, ensaios (audio-)visuais e outros Prazo final: 01 de Dezembro de 2012 Este dossiê temático dos Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia (CadernosAA) – “Antropologia, etnografia e práticas artísticas” – procurará contribuir para a reflexão em torno da relação entre arte, etnografia e antropologia a partir de trabalhos de investigadores e artistas posicionadosContinue Reading
Empson, Rebecca, 2011. Harnessing Fortune: Personhood, Memory and Place in Mongolia. Oxford University Press. Daniel Miller, UCL One of the issues in teaching material culture studies under the auspices of an anthropology department is explaining what is, at least in my case, a very conservative attitude to ethnography. I haveContinue Reading
Sensate is a peer-reviewed, graduate-student-run journal for experiments in critical media practice. It aims to create, present, and critique innovative projects in the arts, humanities, and sciences and to build on the groundswell of pioneering activities in the digital humanities, scholarly publishing, and innovative media practice to provide a forumContinue Reading