[ecrea] Media Worlds and the Ethnographic Imagination, One day workshop, Goldsmiths - University of London, 16th June

Media Worlds and the Ethnographic Imagination

A workshop organised by the Goldsmiths Media Ethnography Group and the 
Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths University of London

June 16th 2014

10:00am - 6pm

LG01 and 314 Stuart Hall Building (formerly New Academic Building)
Goldsmiths, University of London

This one-day event launches the Goldsmiths Media Ethnography Group, an 
interdisciplinary network of scholars who use ethnography to understand 
our mediated worlds. The workshop is organised around a series of talks, 
panels and round-table discussions which will trace the diverse 
traditions and future trajectories of media ethnography. Apart from 
showcasing the richness of ethnographic research on media practices, 
broadly defined, speakers will also address questions of ethnographic 
practice. The workshop aims to encourage an interdisciplinary dialogue 
through which we will consider different types of ethnography (including 
auto-ethnography and digital ethnography) and the challenges and 
opportunities of conducting ethnographic research in digital 
environments. Speakers will address questions of ethnographic writing, 
self-reflexivity and ethics as well as the ways in which ethnography 
relates to other modes of inquiry, both qualitative and quantitative.
The event will begin with a keynote talk by Professor David Morley 
entitled 'Towards an Ethnography of Media Audiences (Part 2)'. The 
workshop will end with a plenary round-table discussion on the 
contribution of ethnography for understanding digital practices.

Confirmed participants include: Julie Archambault (Oxford); Veronica 
Barassi (Media, Goldsmiths); Somnath Batabyal (SOAS); Marianne Franklin 
(Media, Goldsmiths); Richard MacDonald (Media, Goldsmiths); Miranda 
McLachlan (Media, Goldsmiths); Mirca Madianou (Media, Goldsmiths); Isaac 
Marrero-Guillamón (Anthropology, Goldsmiths); Evelyn Ruppert 
(Sociology, Goldsmiths); Anamik Saha (Media, Goldsmiths); Gareth Stanton 
(Media, Goldsmiths); Olivia Swift (Anthropology, Goldsmiths)

Registration is free but please RSVP here: 
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/media-worlds-and-the-ethnographic-imagination-tickets-11597547577

You can find more information about the group here: 
http://www.gold.ac.uk/media-communications/research/goldsmiths-media-ethnography-group/ 



Programme

10:00 - 10:15 Registration

10:15 Welcome and Introduction

10:30 - 11:30 Opening Keynote  David Morley (Media & Communications, 
Goldsmiths): Towards an Ethnography of Media Audiences (Part 2)

11:30 - 11:45 Coffee Break

12:45-13:15 Panel I
Chair: Olivia Swift (Anthropology, Goldsmiths)
Julie Archambault  (University of Oxford): Mediated intimacy, 
ethnography and the search for authenticity in Mozambique.
Richard MacDonald (Media & Communications, Goldsmiths): Projecting films 
for the spirits: researching the use of media apparatus in ritual practice
Isaac Marrero-Guillamón (Anthropology, Goldsmiths) Ethnography beyond 
representation: media artefacts and the politics of invention

13:15 -14:15 Lunch break

14:15-15:15 Panel  II
Chair: Miranda McLachlan (Media & Communications, Goldsmiths)
Gareth Stanton (Media & Communications, Goldsmiths): Movies, Melodramas 
and Murderers: the Journey of Media Anthropology
Somnath Batabyal (SOAS) Minding the Gap: practitioners as ethnographers

15:15- 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 - 17:00 Plenary Round Table Discussion: Ethnography for 
understanding digital practices
Chair: Anamik Saha (Goldsmiths)
Speakers: Veronica Barassi (Media and Communications, Goldsmiths); 
Marianne Franklin (Media and Communications, Goldsmiths); Evelyn Ruppert 
(Sociology, Goldsmiths); Mirca Madianou (Media and Communications, 
Goldsmiths).

17:00 Reception



Dr. Mirca Madianou
Department of Media and Communications
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross, London
SE14 6NW
UK

Tel: +44 (0)20 7919 7244
email: (m.madianou /at/ gold.ac.uk)
Twitter: @madianou
http://www.gold.ac.uk/media-communications/staff/madianou/
PI, Humanitarian Technologies Project: 
http://www.esrc.ac.uk/my-esrc/grants/ES.M001288.1/read
New Book: Ethics of Media: 
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=532830



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