Digital Ethnography: The Empowering Potentials of New Media
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF RACE AND ETHNICITY
Spring 2005 Colloquium Series: Race and Diaspora
Wednesday, May 4
3:00 pm
Social Science Building, room 107
"Digital Ethnography: The Empowering Potentials of New Media Toward
Preservation and Historical Dislocation"
Ramesh Srinivasan, Design Department, Harvard University
Ramesh Srinivasan has worked with a variety of global communities focusing on the mechanisms by which communities can truly author and design their own media systems and electronic media systems. He will present two projects, Village Voice and Tribal Peace, created as part of his ethnographic work with a Somali refugee community and a set of Native
American Reservations within San Diego County. This presentation will indicate the means by which an information system and electronic archive can be integrated within an ethnographic process to re-energize communities that have been disadvantaged by dynamics of fragmentation and dispersion. He argues that the electronic archive can begin to address the deep temporal and spatial disconnections faced by such communities and situates this research in an interesting set of theoretical discussions around postcolonial theory, cultural geography, indigenous media (visual anthropology), and science studies/linguistic relativity.
Spring 2005 Colloquium Series: Race and Diaspora
Wednesday, May 4
3:00 pm
Social Science Building, room 107
"Digital Ethnography: The Empowering Potentials of New Media Toward
Preservation and Historical Dislocation"
Ramesh Srinivasan, Design Department, Harvard University
Ramesh Srinivasan has worked with a variety of global communities focusing on the mechanisms by which communities can truly author and design their own media systems and electronic media systems. He will present two projects, Village Voice and Tribal Peace, created as part of his ethnographic work with a Somali refugee community and a set of Native
American Reservations within San Diego County. This presentation will indicate the means by which an information system and electronic archive can be integrated within an ethnographic process to re-energize communities that have been disadvantaged by dynamics of fragmentation and dispersion. He argues that the electronic archive can begin to address the deep temporal and spatial disconnections faced by such communities and situates this research in an interesting set of theoretical discussions around postcolonial theory, cultural geography, indigenous media (visual anthropology), and science studies/linguistic relativity.
