P12b - Immersive Ethnography (2021)

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Panel 12b - Immersive Ethnography: Authorship, Agency and Collaboration in VR and 360 video

Convenors: Rossella Schillaci (UT Austin Colab - Nova University of Lisbon, University of Texas at Austin), Mark Westmoreland (Leiden University)

Short abstract: How emerging technologies could expand methodological approaches for visual anthropological research? Session 2: Collaborative & Participatory Methods

Papers:

• Atmospheric Creativity: Authorship and Collaboration with Japanese Contemporary Artists
  Author: Iza Kavedzija (University of Exeter)

• Immersive shared anthropology: possibilities and limitations
  Author: Rob Eagle (UWE Bristol)

• A sense of presence; participatory digital ethnography using immersive 360-video with Syrian refugees in Sweden, Jordan and Turkey for 1st, 2nd and 3rd person perspective stories
  Author: Josepha Wessels (Malmö University)

A live discussion with the contributors will take place on Zoom on Friday 26 March, 13:30 - 14:20 UTC. Find the papers’ abstracts and a link to join the live discussion here.

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