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Week 51: 17-23 December 2018

December 23, 2018 By Karl Andersson Leave a Comment

Last week of school this year! Almost three months of intense studies lie behind me: This week we finished unit 7 of both Classics and Varieties of Ethnographic Film and Digital Anthropology, where I was one of the presenters:

Presentation on microcelebrities.

Study

Ethnographic Film Unit 7

Towards a shared Anthropology: Jean Rouch and Cinéma-Vérité

  • Rouch, Jean (2003): The Camera and Man. In ​Paul Hockings (ed.): Principles of Visual Anthropology, pp.79-98.
  • Grimshaw, Anna (2001): The anthropological cinema of Jean Rouch. In ​The Ethnographer’s Eye: Ways of seeing in Modern Anthropology, pp. 112-120.

Films to this unit:

  • Michel Brault and Gilles Groulx: Les Raquetteurs​ (1958, 15 min.)
  • Jean Rouch: Chronicle of a Summer​ (1961, 87 min.)

Digital Anthropology Unit 7

Online Celebrities: Social media as a marketing tool.

  • Seaver, Nick (2017): Algorithms as culture: Some tactics for the ethnography of algorithmic systems. In Big Data & Society 4, no. 2, pp. 1-12.
  • Related film: The American Meme (2018, 98 min)

Other

Articles

  • The Economist: How to think about data in 2019
  • The Economist: Inevitably, France’s gilets jaunes protesters debate the metaphysics of roundabouts
  • Geek.com: ‘The American Meme’ Plumbs the Dark Side of Internet Fame
  • The New York Times: How Peter Jackson Made WWI Footage Seem Astonishingly New With ‘They Shall Not Grow Old’

Film & video

  • Mowgli (2018, 104 min)
  • Flushed Away (2006, 85 min)
  • Dogs of Berlin, S1 E3-E4
  • Linus Tech Tips: Apple Killed the Mac Mini
  • MyTechLiving: Colorgrading SLog in Final Cut Pro
  • DemocracyNow: You Are Stealing Our Future: Greta Thunberg, 15, Condemns the World’s Inaction on Climate Change

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About Karl Andersson

Karl Andersson is attending the MA Visual and Media Anthropology programme at Freie Universität Berlin. He has a background in journalism and is currently researching Japanese subcultures. 日本語で話せます!

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