Please let me know if you might be interested in participating the following
proposed session for the 2008 AAA meetings in San Francisco (see abstract
below). My hope is to organize a session that allows for the productive
intersection of people who 'do' digital video/new media, those who study it,
and the anthropology of work (the study of processes, organization, cultures
of work).
If you use digital video/new media in your research, produce anthropological
films of work, or engage in the critique study of same consider
participating.
Bye for now,
Charles
Exploring Work and Workscapes Through New Media
The worlds of work, and our approaches to study these worlds, have been
shifted by the emergence of new media relying upon digital technologies.
The participants in this session explore though critical analysis, video,
audio, and related new media technologies- the interaction between
technologies and the social forces that shape and are shaped by them.
Drawing upon a variety of new media approaches and creative understandings
of the Œworkscape¹ the participants share the contention that
anthropological research only stands to be enriched through the deployment
of new media.
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Charles R. Menzies, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Anthropology [http://www.charlesmenzies.ca]
Director of The Ethnographic Film Unit at UBC [http://anthfilm.anth.ubc.ca]
Department of Anthropology [http://www.anth.ubc.ca]
University of British Columbia
6303 NW Marine Drive
Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1
Canada
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