Anthropological Ethics and the Communicative Affordances of Audio-Video Recorders in Ethnographic Fieldwork: Transduction as Theory
Anthropological Ethics and the Communicative Affordances of Audio-Video Recorders in Ethnographic Fieldwork: Transduction as Theory
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DOI：
10.1111/aman.12823
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发表时间：
2017-03-01
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3.5
通讯作者：
Black, Steven P.
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作者：
Black, Steven P.
这篇文章有助于在民族志研究中发展有关音像记录技术的专业人类学话语。综合民族志研究、声音民族志研究和多媒体技术的研究成果，本文反射性地运用了转导和启示的概念来分析录音机如何被理论化为田野调查的一部分。这是基于对南非一个由艾滋病毒感染者组成的祖鲁福音唱诗班的实地考察。在这里，我讨论了研究参与者如何指导我在不平等和艾滋病毒耻辱中使用录音机。我分析了记录技术的道德沟通的启示，研究如何设计的音频视频技术与文化和交流的使用和评估这些技术的使用惯例相交。这种分析表明，道德沟通的启示换能器产生的民族志的社会自我的延伸和断开自我的方式，可以有效地在实地考察期间导航。
This article contributes to the development of professional anthropological discourses about audiovideo recording technologies in ethnographic research. Synthesizing scholarship on ethnographic partiality, doing ethnography in sound, and multimedia technologies, the article reflexively applies the concepts of transduction and affordance to analyze how recorders may be theorized as part of fieldwork encounters. This is based on fieldwork with a Zulu gospel choir comprised of people living with HIV in South Africa. Here, I discuss how research participants guided my use of recorders amid inequality and HIV stigma. I analyze the ethical-communicative affordances of recording technologies, examining how the design of audio-video technologies intersects with cultural and communicative conventions for use and evaluation of use of these technologies. This analysis suggests that the ethical-communicative affordances of transducers yield both an extension of an ethnographer's social self and a disconnect from that self in ways that can be productively navigated during fieldwork.