Mediacciones

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Barcelona, Catalunya, Espagne

Our team….

• Interdisciplinary group:– Visual anthropologists.– Normal anthropologist– Physicist (converted to anthropologist)– Communication studies renegade– Sociologist illuminated

….our studies

• “New Media” (youtube, Flickr, blogs)• ICT´s (computers, Internet, digital

cameras, mobile phones)• Social practices (everyday life,

subjects and identity formation)• Sociability and social relationships

Our theoretical approach

• Social Construction of technology (Bijker)

• Actor-Network Theory (Latour, Law)• “Circuit of the Culture” (Du Gay,

et.al) • “Media as practices” (Couldry) • Practice turn in contemporary theory

(Schatzki, Knorr-Cetina Von Savigny)

Our metodological approach

Etnography

Our current studies I

• Elisenda Ardèvol– Visual anthropology– Cultural production– Visual/”virtual”

ethnography

• Begonya Enguix– Body– Gender

http://eardevol.wordpress.com/

http://coslogia.wordpress.com/

Our current studies II

• Adolfo– Blog practices

• Edgar– Digital photography practices

http://estalella.wordpress.com/

http://tesisantitesis.wordpress.com/

….and other “stuff”

• Research “The social presentation of the body on the Internet” in the R+D project “The social presentation of the body in the multicultural and globalize context)

• Visual ethnography on the Sant Antoni Market

• Research: “Madrid´s subway observed by their users: representation and public space in self produced videos” R+D “Cybercities”

• Seminars with professors (Amparo Lasén, Ruben Blanco, Ann Beaulieu, Etnography and the forthcoming in Media Antropologhy)

Some papers and publications presented lately

Ardèvol, E. Roig, T. San Cornelio, G. Pagés, R. Alsina, P. (2007) Theorising new media practice: The case of audiovisual contents shared over the Internet in Theorising Media and Practice, John Postill, Birgit Braeuchler,  Berghan Books, Oxford. (in press)

Estalella, A., & Ardèvol, E. (2007). Field Ethics: Towards Situated Ethics for Ethnographic Research on the Internet. Forum Qualitative Social Research, 8(3).

Estalella, A. (2007). Blogs: From communicative to connective artefacts. In T. N. Burg & J. Schmidt (Eds.), BlogTalk Reloaded. Social Software - Research and Cases (pp. 51-64). Viena.

Gómez, Ardèvol y Estalella (2007) Playful Embodiment and identity Performance on Internet. AoIR, Vancouver, Canadá. 

Gómez, E. (2007). Las Metáforas de Internet. Editorial UOC.  Adolfo Estalella and Edgar Gómez (2007). Editors, with Daniel Domínguez, Anne

Beaulieu, Bernt Schnettler and Rosie Read, of the special number on Virtual Ethnography of the Forum Qualitative Social Research.

Ardèvol, E. La búsqueda de una mirada: Antropología y cine etnográfico, Editorial UOC, Barcelona, 2006.

Enguix, B. (2005), “I need a hero: Publicidad y Géneros” en Ardèvol, E. y Grau, J. (coord.), Antropología de los Media, Sevilla: FAAEE- Fund. el Monte-Asana, pp. 89-106. ISBN: 84-8455-165-2 (CL)

Enguix B. (2007), “La construcción de la infancia en el tiempo de Pinazo: el niño como sujeto” en Pérez Rojas, J.  et al. Pinazo: El Retrato Infantil, València: IVAM/ Generalitat Valenciana, pp. 13- 36 . ISBN: 978-84-482-4669-3 (CL)

Some graphical proves

Connections….

Merci pour tout….

Forthcoming:

Media Antropology Workshop in Barcelona

Mediacciones.es (webpage)