Images, Text, Fieldwork

SOAN70452 Images, Text, Fieldwork 15 Semester 2 Postgraduate Taught Level 7 Jolynna Sinanan Unit coordinator 1 FHEQ level (Framework for Higher Education Qualifications) ' Masters/Integrated Masters P4 ' European Credit Transfer & Accumulation System Rating : 7.5 Images Texts Fieldwork (ITF) explores a range of ethnographic and anthropological approaches for researching and representing social and cultural life, including participant observation, literary, visual and sensory methods, collaborative modes of research and new experimental ethnographic approaches. ITF incorporates the emergent field digital anthropology and the theoretical approaches and practical ethnographic possibilities for using digital media to understand the complexity and diversity of human experience.   Images Texts Fieldwork (ITF) explores a range of ethnographic and anthropological approaches for researching and representing social and cultural life, including participant observation, literary, visual and sensory methods, collaborative modes of research and new experimental ethnographic approaches. ITF incorporates the emergent field digital anthropology and the theoretical approaches and practical ethnographic possibilities for using digital media to understand the complexity and diversity of human experience.   1) Plan and carry out a small research project by using or experimenting with a range of methods. 2) Communicate and represent research findings through one or more forms of media, including text, image, sound etc.  3) Offer a critical understanding and analysis of the research process and your own research practice, so as to develop your own research and fieldwork knowledge On completion of this unit successful students will be able to:• Plan, carry out and write up a small research project. • Learning and develop a range of theoretical and practical approaches, including classic fieldwork techniques, participant observation, interviewing, visual and sensory methods, digital anthropology and experimental approaches to research and representation.• Work as a team member to produce collaborative media outputs.• Communicate ideas clearly to others through writing and oral presentations. Lectures, film screenings, workshops and discussions 0 Other 100% 3000 word Final Essay based on a small research project, including audio-visual materials. Students will receive feedback via:• Discussions in lectures and seminars, and during presentations• Questions you bring to the instructor during office hours• Final essay Y Cox, R, Irving, A and Wright, C 2016. Beyond Text: Critical Practices and Sensory Anthropology. Manchester: Manchester University Press     Geertz, C. 1973. The Interpretation of Cultures. Chicago: University of Chicago  Press     Horst H and Miller D (eds) Digital Anthropology. Oxford: Berg, pp. 3–37.     Morphy, H & Banks M. 1999.  Rethinking Visual Anthropology. New      Haven: Yale University Press.                  Pertierra, A. C. (2018). Media anthropology for the digital age. Cambridge: Polity.     Pink, S. 2015, Doing Sensory Ethnography, London: Sage Publications.   0 0 0