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

摘要：这个REU网站招收了一群主要来自地区社区学院的学生，他们在巴尔的摩城市的一个社区进行人类学研究项目。REU网站利用人类学的方法，通过一个公共人类学的镜头，证明人类学研究的相关性，学生研究人员和社区参与者。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）社区大学教育的学生。学生们参加在陶森大学举办的研讨会，并使用一套与媒体人类学的新分支学科相关的通用定性研究方法，对巴尔的摩Sharp Leadenhall社区的人们表征进行合作的实证研究。在利用不同的方法和数据收集形式（包括视觉人类学、参与式观察、社会网络分析和访谈）开展自己的民族志项目的同时，学生们还利用他们收集到的视觉、文本和音频数据进行合作媒体项目。这些项目有多种形式，但都包括以网络为基础的多媒体方式呈现社区居民的生活，人们可以利用这些方式努力发展自己的社区。当学生们离开陶森时，他们会在接下来的几个月里分析数据，并完成他们的项目，以便在接下来的5月向社区、教师和下一组学生展示。在此期间，他们与其他参与者（包括教师和社区伙伴）保持虚拟社区，以进行额外的合作和指导。在他们的研究经历结束后，教师仍与学生群体保持联系，以促进向四年制大学的过渡，为研究生课程的申请提供建议，并促进成果的传播。智力价值：1)学生项目利用人类学的重叠方法说明巴尔的摩城市社区的不同表现的紧张和矛盾。2)通过与社区居民的媒体合作项目，REU网站开发了新媒体时代应用人类学的潜力。3)最后，REU网站提供了一个让社区学院学生和社区学院转学生参与原创性研究的教学模式。更广泛的影响：1)增加了社区大学生对人类学和社会科学研究生教育的兴趣。2)为全国观众制作多媒体演示，突出巴尔的摩居民在其家乡社区的生活、问题和愿望。3)对社区学院和社区研究和传播感兴趣的学生、教师和社区居民的电子网络。

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.