Newton Mobility Grants
Scheme 2016
British Academy &
Office of Higher Education
Commission, Thailand
Centre for Contemporary Social and
Cultural Studies, Faculty of Sociology
and Anthropology, Thammasat University
Media Ethnography Group,
Department of Media and Communications,
Goldsmiths, University of London
6-7 January 2017
4th-floor meeting room, Rattana Pittaya Building
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Khon Kaen University
06 January 2017
summary of the lectures
(in Thai) pdf
| 09.00-10.00 | participants #1 | introduction | ||
| 10.00-11.20 | lecture #1 | The Moral Economy of the Mobile Phone: Perspectives from the South Pacific | ||
| Professor Heather A. Horst | ||||
| Founding Director, Digital Ethnography Research Centre School of Media and Communication Director, Research Partnerships College of Design and Social Context RMIT University |
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| 11.40-13.00 | lecture #2 | Unfriendly Money? Digital money, trust and sociality amongst rural migrants in China | ||
| Tom McDonald | ||||
| Department of Sociology, the University of Hong Kong | ||||
| 14.00-15.30 | discussion #1 | Anthropology and Digital Culture | ||
| readings | Coleman, Gabriella. 2010. "Ethnographic Approaches to Digital Media". Annual Review of Anthropology 39: 487-505. | |||
| Varis, Piia. 2015. "Digital Ethnography". In The Routledge Handbook of Language and Digital Communication, edited by Alexandra Georgakopoulou and Tereza Spilioti, 55-68. London: Routledge. | ||||
| 15.50-17.00 | lecture #3 | Digital Media Environment in Southeast Asia | ||
| Arthit Suriyawongkul | ||||
| Board Secretary, Foundation for Internet and Civic Culture | ||||
07 January 2017
| 9.00-10.20 | lecture #4 | Smartphone Ethnography | ||
| Mark Johnson | ||||
| Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London | ||||
| 10.40-12.10 | discussion #2 | Digital Media and Culture: methodological challenges | ||
| readings | Boellstorff, Tom. 2012. "Rethinking Digital Anthropology". In Digital Anthropology, edited by Heather A. Horst and Daniel Miller, 39-60. London: Berg. Boyd, Danah and Kate Crawford. 2012. "Critical Questions for Big Data: Provocations for a cultural, technological, and scholarly phenomenon". Information, Communication & Society 15(5): 662-679. Boczkowski, Pablo J. and Ignacio Siles. 2014. "Steps Toward Cosmopolitanism in the Study of Media Technologies: Integrating Scholarship on Production, Consumption, Materiality, and Content". In Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society, edited by Tarleton Gillespie, Pablo J. Boczkowski, and Kirsten A. Foot, 53-76. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. |
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| 13.10-14.40 | discussion #3 | Ethnography of Digital Connectivity: key themes |
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| readings | #3A activism and surveillance Poell, Thomas. 2015. “Social Media Activism and State Censorship”. In Social Media, Politics and the State: protests, revolutions, riots, crime and policing in the age of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, edited by Daniel Trottier and Christian Fuchs. 189-206. London: Routledge. #3B migration & mobility Madianou, Mirca and Miller, Daniel. 2011. “Mobile Phone Parenting: Reconfiguring relationships between Filipina migrant mothers and their left-behind children” New Media & Society 13(3): 457-470. #3C digital tools and concepts of personhood Steven J. Jackson, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, and Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat. 2014. "Learning, Innovation, and Sustainability Among Mobile Phone Repairers in Dhaka, Bangladesh," in Proceedings of the 2014 Designing Interactive Systems Convergence, Vancouver, June 2014. |
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| 15.00-16.30 | participants #2 | reflections | ||