REU: Anthropology by the Wire: Community Ethnography through Multimedia Research

REU：电线人类学：通过多媒体研究进行社区民族志

• 批准号: 1062843
• 负责人: Matthew Durington
• 金额: $ 7.45万
• 依托单位: Towson University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-04-01 至 2012-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1062843&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Anthropology; Wire; Community; Ethnography

Summary: This REU site recruits a diverse group of students drawn primarily from area community colleges for anthropological research projects on a neighborhood in urban Baltimore. The REU site utilizes anthropological methods through the lens of a public anthropology that demonstrates the relevance of anthropological research to both student researchers and to community participants. The site primarily targets students in their first year, those with at least 1 semester (or its equivalent) of community college education. Students attend seminars held at Towson University and engage in collaborative, empirical research on people's representations of Baltimore's Sharp Leadenhall neighborhood using a common set of qualitative research methodologies related to the new subdiscipline of media anthropology. While working on their own ethnographic projects utilizing diverse methodologies and forms of data gathering, including visual anthropology, participant observation, social network analysis and interviews, students simultaneously undertake collaborative media projects using the visual, textual and audio data they've gathered. These projects take many forms, but all include web-based, multimedia representations of the lives of people in communities that can be utilized by people in their own efforts to develop their communities. When students leave Towson, they spend the next months analyzing data and completing their projects for presentation to the community, the faculty and the next group of students the following May. During this time, they maintain a virtual community with other participants, including faculty and community associates, for additional collaboration and mentorship. After their research experience has ended, faculty remain in contact with student cohorts in order to facilitate transition to a 4-year university, to advise on applications for graduate programs and to facilitate the dissemination of results.Intellectual merit: 1)Student projects illustrate the tensions and contradictions of different representations of an urban neighborhood in Baltimore using overlapping methodologies in anthropology. 2)Through collaborative media projects with community residents, the REU site develops the potentials of an applied anthropology in the age of new media. 3)Finally, the REU site offers a pedagogical model for involving community college students and community college transfer students in original research.Broader impacts: 1)Increased interest in post-graduate education in anthropology and the social sciences among community college students. 2)Multimedia presentations created for national audiences highlighting the lives, problems and aspirations of Baltimore residents in their home communities. 3)Electronic networks of students, faculty and community residents interested in community colleges and community-based research and dissemination.

总结：这个REU网站招募了一群主要来自地区社区学院的学生，他们在巴尔的摩的一个社区进行人类学研究项目。REU网站通过公共人类学的透镜利用人类学方法，展示人类学研究对学生研究人员和社区参与者的相关性。该网站主要针对第一年的学生，那些至少有一个学期（或同等学历）的社区大学教育。学生参加在陶森大学举行的研讨会，并参与合作，实证研究的人的巴尔的摩的夏普Leadenhall附近的代表性，使用一套共同的定性研究方法，有关媒体人类学的新的子学科。在利用不同的方法和数据收集形式（包括视觉人类学，参与者观察，社交网络分析和访谈）进行自己的民族志项目时，学生们同时使用他们收集的视觉，文本和音频数据进行协作媒体项目。这些项目采取多种形式，但都包括以网络为基础的多媒体形式展示社区人民的生活，人们可以利用这些形式发展自己的社区。当学生离开陶森，他们花了接下来的几个月分析数据，并完成他们的项目介绍给社区，教师和下一组学生在接下来的五月。在此期间，他们与其他参与者（包括教师和社区同事）保持一个虚拟社区，以进行额外的协作和指导。在他们的研究经验已经结束后，教师保持与学生群体的联系，以促进过渡到4年制大学，为研究生课程的申请提供建议，并促进结果的传播。智力价值：1）学生项目说明了紧张局势和矛盾的不同代表性的巴尔的摩使用重叠的人类学方法。2)通过与社区居民合作的媒体项目，REU网站开发了新媒体时代应用人类学的潜力。3）最后，REU网站为社区大学生和社区大学转学生参与原创性研究提供了教学模式。更广泛的影响：1）提高了社区大学生对人类学和社会科学研究生教育的兴趣。2)为全国观众制作的多媒体演示文稿，突出了巴尔的摩居民在其家乡社区的生活、问题和愿望。3)对社区学院和基于社区的研究和传播感兴趣的学生、教师和社区居民的电子网络。