{"id":4335,"date":"2020-10-07T10:59:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T14:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/?p=4335"},"modified":"2020-10-08T10:11:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T14:11:23","slug":"media-ethnography-takeaways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/media-ethnography-takeaways\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Ethnography Takeaways"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong><em>Lessons about media and culture from our discussions and reading presentations of media ethnography.<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>media making entails imagining and producing the audience as a discrete &#8220;thing&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>media producers are also media audiences<\/li>\n<li>media ethnography &#8220;de-massifies&#8221; mass media\/global media; audiences are not passive recipients of media<\/li>\n<li>top-down imperial or colonial interpretations of media texts and technologies don&#8217;t make sense from an ethnographic stance of particular social contexts<\/li>\n<li>in a global context, culture and difference emerge in hybrid forms<\/li>\n<li>media making can entail a self-conscious awareness of culture<\/li>\n<li>media analysis must look beyond the text as a discrete isolable object<\/li>\n<li>media has material dimensions: both as sensory experience and as an assemblage of different material signifying systems (language, visuals, sound)<\/li>\n<li>media technologies are not inherently &#8220;Western&#8221; &#8211; but can be incorporated into cultural systems<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;authenticity&#8221; is culturally relative<\/li>\n<li>representation is a social fact.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Please feel free to comment and add to this list.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lessons about media and culture from our discussions and reading presentations of media ethnography. media making entails imagining and producing the audience as a discrete &#8220;thing&#8221; media producers are also media audiences media ethnography &#8220;de-massifies&#8221; mass media\/global media; audiences are not passive recipients of media top-down imperial or colonial interpretations of media texts and technologies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post-production"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4335"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4342,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335\/revisions\/4342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}