[ecrea] Short Course - Media Ethnography: Theory and Practice

>SHORT COURSE FOR Ph.D. STUDENTS
>APPLICATION DEADLINE MAY 3.  FULL 
>DETAILS:  <http://FMKJ.DK/?P=1832>HTTP://FMKJ.DK/?P=1832
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>Media Ethnography: Theory and Practice
>Dates:  9-11 June 2010
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>Course venue: Pappersbruket, Osby, Southern Sweden.
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>The course will take place at Pappersbruket, Broby, Southern Sweden
>(see www.pappersbruket.se) Accommodation and Ph.D. seminar will all be
>at the same venue. Transport by train is estimated to take 1 hour and
>45 minutes from Copenhagen Central Station.
>
>Co-directors:  Dr. Debra Spitulnik (Emory University) and Dr. Thomas
>Tufte (Roskilde University)
>
>Course description:
>
>This short course is designed to introduce Ph.D. students to the
>theory and practice of media ethnography.  We explore how media
>ethnography applies to both media production and media reception, and
>how it is fundamentally both a theory and a method for investigating
>everyday practices and lived experiences as they are shaped by
>culturally-specific ways of being-in-the world.  Media to be
>considered include:  television, film, radio, newspapers, and new
>media.  The course will begin with a brief overview of the history of
>ethnographic approaches within media studies and cultural studies,
>which dates back to the mid 1980s.  We then engage more recent
>scholarship within media anthropology, focusing specifically on three
>dimensions of ethnography:
>
>(a) as fieldwork method;
>(b) as anthropological lens, and
>(c) as a method of writing and re-presentation.
>
>While all 5 speakers will speak, so will the participating Ph.D.
>students. All students are encouraged to present a media
>ethnographical dimension of their Ph.D project reflecting on one or
>more of the three above mentioned approaches to media ethnography. The
>students will furthermore have the opportunity to conduct a
>mini-ethnography assignment amongst families in a small village in the
>Swedish woods, in which they practice doing participant-observation
>fieldwork, field note-taking, and writing with vivid ethnographic
>textures.
>
>Speakers:
>Dr. Debra Spitulnik, Associate Professor, Emory University, USA
>Dr. Thomas Tufte, Professor, Roskilde University, Denmark
>Dr. Jo Helle Valle, Senior Researcher, Nat?l Institute for Consumer
>Research, Oslo, Norway
>Dr. John Postill, C3 Research Institute, Sheffield Hallam University,
>UK
>Dr,  Jo Tacchi, Associate Professor, Creative Industries Faculty,
>Queensland University of  Technology, Australia
>
>APPLICATION DEADLINE MAY 3.  FULL 
>DETAILS:  <http://FMKJ.DK/?P=1832>HTTP://FMKJ.DK/?P=1832
>
>
>

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University of Brussels
Centre for Studies on Media and Culture (CeMeSO)
Pleinlaan 2 - B-1050 Brussels - Belgium
T: ++ 32 (0)2-629.18.56
F: ++ 32 (0)2-629.36.84
Office: 5B.401a
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E-mail: (Nico.Carpentier /at/ vub.ac.be)
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