[ecrea] cfp: New Methods in Media Anthropology

we hope that the symposium on »New Methods in Media Anthropology« of the 
AG Medien in der DGV
(Working Group “Media Anthropology” of the German Anthropological 
Association) will be of interest to some of you.

The symposium will take place from July 10th to 11th 2014 at the 
University of Siegen (Germany)
and is jointly organized with the Graduiertenkolleg “Locating Media”.
Languages of the symposium will be English and German.

We are happy to welcome Cristina Grasseni (Utrecht University) as key 
note speaker
talking about »Skilled Visions and Ecologies of Belonging«.

The deadline for submissions has been extended to June 10th 2014.

All the best,

Cora Bender, Anja Dreschke and Simone Pfeifer



Call for Papers
New Methods in Media Anthropology
Symposium of the AG Medien in der DGV (Working Group “Media 
Anthropology” of the
German Anthropological Association), in cooperation with the 
Graduiertenkolleg “Locating
Media”, University of Siegen, Germany, 10 - 11 July 2014.

Over the past two decades, anthropologists focusing on media practices 
have significantly
expanded the scope and applicability of ethnographic research methods. 
They responded to the
globally increasing medialization of social life worlds and brought 
attention to the fact that
media cultures do not necessarily evolve along a unilineal Western model 
of media history. In an
ongoing process, innovative (digital) technologies constantly produce 
new media practices and
thus change the researcher’s situation in the field. The investigation 
of media practices and
spaces continues to challenge established methods of the discipline, 
revealing a demand for the
development of new methods in the field.
The use of audio-visual media in the research process likewise plays a 
significant role in
widening the range of methods. Conventional media such as photography, 
film, or video need to
be adapted and updated by including new digital forms that combine 
visual, auditory, and textbased
approaches. Interactive online platforms, video essays, sound 
installations, or sensory
walks gain importance for both the analysis of media practices and the 
presentation of
ethnographic research and the sharing of its results with anthropology’s 
interlocutors. These
innovative approaches thereby transform ethnographic knowledge and 
translate it to different
media formats and genres.
The symposium aims to explore how media-based methods can be included in 
the analysis and
representation of (media-) anthropological research and which forms of 
knowledge their use can
generate. How, for example, can such methods be suitably applied to 
investigate social
networking sites like YouTube, Facebook, or Twitter? Which problems 
arise with collecting,
reproducing, circulating, and archiving digital and audio-visual data? 
What potential does audiovisual
media and its access to sensory and experience-based ways of being in 
the world offer for
the study of ‘old’ and ‘new’ media practices and their mediation? How 
can new media be useful
in establishing and maintaining rapport with the people we study? What 
role can experimental
ethnography and artistic research play in the field of media anthropology?
The AG Medien symposium offers a space for networking and serves to 
prepare a follow-up
panel at the 2015 conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für 
Völkerkunde/DGV (German
Anthropological Association) in Marburg. Languages of the Symposium are 
English and
German.
We invite contributions from the field of media anthropology and 
neighboring disciplines with a
focus on ethnographic methods in media research. Short presentations of 
current media
anthropological research projects not related to the theme of the 
workshop are also welcome and
will be scheduled in a special session devoted to current research.

Please submit your proposal of 200-300 words no later than 10 June 2014 
to Dr. Cora Bender
((cora.bender /at/ uni-siegen.de)).
Date: 10–11 July 2014
Location: University of Siegen, Germany
Organization: Anja Dreschke ((anja.dreschke /at/ uni-siegen.de)), Simone Pfeifer
((pfeifer /at/ locatingmedia.uni-siegen.de)), Dr. Cora Bender 
((cora.bender /at/ uni-siegen.de))




*****
Anja Dreschke

Research Fellow "Locating Media"
Interdisciplinary Research Program (GRK 1769)
University of Siegen - Department of Media Studies

office: Artur-Woll-Haus, Am Eichenhang 50, 57076 Siegen
home: Hansaring 127, 50670 Cologne, Germany

phone 0049 (0) 221 285 99 10
fax 0049 (0) 221 285 99 11
mobile 0049 (0) 172 266 54 68
mail (mail /at/ anjadreschke.de)

www.anjadreschke.de


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