Friday, June 11, 2010

Media Ethnography: theory and practice

I have been attending a seminar on media ethonography: theory and practice at Pappersbruket, Osby in Southern Sweden. The course was designed to introduce PhD students to the theory and practice of media ethnography. It explored how media ethonography 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 tehy are shared by culturally-specific ways of being-in the world.

The venue was nice, the food great, and new friendships from different Univeristies from created. Nice now to know Jacob (Arhus), Nana (Arhus), Rose (Dar es salam),  Bram (Utrecht), Meltem (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University), Johanna (Orebro), Florencia (Karlstad), Rikke (Uni of Copenhagen), Siri (Martin Luther Uni), Helena (Westminister), Maja (Uni of Southern Denmark) and Maria Ines (Universidae Nova de Lisboa (Portugal).  Thanks to the Professors Thomas Tufte (Roskilde) John Postil (Sheffield), Debra Spitulnik (Emory Uni, USA), and Jo Tachi (Queensland, Australia).