Dear All,
This is a reminder that the deadline for submitting paper proposals to
the panel "Digital Visuality" at the Vienna Anthropology Days 2018
(VANDA 2018) is 1 June 2018.
If you get questions, please let me know.
All the best,
Philipp
Vienna Anthropology Days 2018
September 19-22, 2018
Panel “DIGITAL VISUALITY”
Convenors
Elke Mader and Philipp Budka
(Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna)
Visual communication and visual culture have been a research focus in
social and cultural anthropology for quite some time (e.g. Banks & Ruby,
2011). With the advent of digital media and technologies, internet-based
devices and services, mobile computing as well as software applications
and digital platforms new opportunities and challenges have come to the
forefront in anthropological research, education and communication of
visuality (e.g. Pink, 2011). Digital media technologies have become
ubiquitous means of visual communication, interaction and
representation. For anthropology and its subdisciplines, such as
digital, media and visual anthropology, it is of particular interest how
people engage with digital media and technologies, how “the digital“ is
embedded in everyday life and how it relates to different social
practices and cultural processes in human societies. By considering
changing sociocultural, political and economic contexts and through
ethnographic fieldwork, a continuously growing number of anthropological
projects is aiming for a better understanding of contemporary digital
phenomena (e.g. Horst & Miller, 2012).
This session contributes to these endeavours by inviting papers that
focus on the visuality and visual aspects of digital life and culture.
Papers could present ethnographic studies and discuss some of the
following questions:
What does “the digital” mean for visual anthropology and/or the
(interdisciplinary) relationship between anthropological subdisciplines
and other visual research fields?
How does visual anthropology provide new perspectives on digital visuality?
How do specific conceptual approaches contribute to the analysis and
understanding of digital visuality (e.g. ritualization, performativity,
representation, material culture, practice theory)?
What theoretical concepts and analytical categories of sociality can be
used to study (differences of) visual culture?
How does digital visuality co-constitute and mediate cultural
performances and rituals?
How do digital platforms and social media services, such as YouTube,
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or Snapchat, and related practices
constitute and change (visual) communication?
How does digital visuality impact and redefine ethnographic research
(e.g. research techniques, tools, ethics)?
What are possible futures for digital visual anthropology and ethnography?
350 words abstract submitted via:
https://vanda.univie.ac.at/program/call-for-papers/
Deadline: 1 June 2018
More on VANDA 2018: https://vanda.univie.ac.at/
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Philipp Budka
http://www.philbu.net
http://twitter.com/philbu
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