I was away for the first three days of this week, and although I could participate in the Ethnographic Film Unit 3 class on Dziga Vertov and Sergei Eisenstein on Tuesday night, I didn’t have any time to read during those days.
I was therefore slightly unprepared for the Digital Anthropology Unit 3 class on Thursday, but it was so interesting that I read all the recommended readings after class. (I was partly late with my readings for Unit 3 because I had started to look into those for Unit 7, since that’s where I’ll be having a presentation.) I really love this course and think the readings are very well chosen, with a few exceptions. I get lots of ideas all the time about things to research, and I write them down.
On Saturday I took a day off to edit my first five minute movie from Ethiopia, where we go to Azwa Mariam Monastery on an island in Lake Tana by Bahir Dar.
Study
Ethnographic Film, Unit 3
- Film: Sergei Eisenstein: Battleship Potemkin (1925, 75 min)
Ethnographic Film, Unit 4
- Unit 4: Early Documentary/Fiction Film: Realism & Neorealism. Module introduction.
- Grimshaw, Anna (2001): The light of reason: John Grierson, Radcliffe-Brown and the enlightenement project. In The Ethnographer’s Eye: Ways of seeing in Modern Anthropology, pp. 57-68.
Films to this unit:
- Roberto Rossellini: Rome Open City (1945, 102 min)
- Edgar Anstey & Arthur Elton (prod. by John Grierson): Housing Problems (1935, 15 min)
- Harry Watt & Basil Wright (prod. by John Grierson): Night Mail (1936, 22 min)
Digital Anthropology, Unit 3
- Postill, J., and Sarah Pink (2012): Social media ethnography: the digital researcher in a messy web. Media International Australia, 14 p.
- Daniel Miller et al. (2016): Introductory chapters. In How the World Changed Social Media, pp. 1-41.
- Video: Daniel Miller introduces Tales from Facebook
- Frömming et al. (2017): Digital Environments and the Future of Ethnography. An Introduction. In Digital Environments. Ethnographic Perspectives across Global Online and Offline Spaces, pp. 13-21.
- Collins, Samuel et al (2017): Ethnographic Apps/Apps as Ethnography. In Anthropology Now 9, no. 1, pp. 102-118.
Digital Anthropology, Unit 7
- Baym, Nancy (2012): Fans or Friends? Seeing Social Media audiences as musicians do. In Journal of Audience and Reception Studies 9, no. 2, pp. 286-316.
- Baym, Nancy (2015): Connect with your audience! The relational labor of connection. In The Communication Review 18, no. 1, pp. 14-22.
- Abidin, Crystal (2018): Preface. In Internet Celebrity. Understanding Fame Online, p. ixx-xxii.
Other
Articles
- The Economist: The truth about a no-deal Brexit
- The Economist: Why Donald Trump is wrong to ignore the murder of a Saudi journalist