Doctoral Dissertation Grant: A Historical and Ethnographic Inquiry of Media Creation and Reconstruction

该项目将通过研究媒体和计算的交叉点，探讨计算如何以及以何种方式出现在边缘化环境中，如后殖民和冲突后国家。这个项目将通过研究文化实践和历史媒体生产来分析计算文化。它将通过调查跨国力量和当地文化如何相互作用来研究记忆和媒体之间的关系。它将记录对与技术有关的发展倡议具有实际意义的创新的多样性。这项研究的结果将对当地和国际决策者、资助者和当地社区产生兴趣。它将有助于了解政策和发展筹资如何能够利用地方社区的努力来改善发展成果。本研究将探讨三个主要的研究问题：（1）媒介展览如何维持连续性或改变主题？(2)当前的电影艺术家和技术人员如何以及在多大程度上将记忆、历史和遗产融入创新和未来建设的过程？(3)一种文化的遗产和创伤史如何与跨国创新话语相互作用？本项目将通过民族志和对红色高棉时期之前、期间和之后遗留和重建的历史媒体的档案分析来回答这些问题。研究人员将追踪历史媒体和新媒体制作之间的连续性和不连续性，绘制当代创新者依赖，重建或反叛其文化遗产的方式。本研究还将探讨当代创新在跨国计算环境中的交叉方式，以了解文化背景下的创新环境。

This project will ask how and in what ways is computing emerging in marginalized settings, such as postcolonial and post-conflict countries by looking at the intersection of media and computing. This project will analyzing computing culture by studying cultural practices and historical media production. It will look at the relationship between memories and media by investigating how transnational forces and locally situated culture interact. It will document the multiplicities of innovation that have practical import for technology-related development initiatives. The results of this research will be of interest to local and international policy makers, funders and local communities. It will contribute to understanding how policies and development funding can build on the efforts of local communities to improve development outcomes. This study will address three primary research questions: (1) how do media exhibits maintain continuity or change thematically? (2) how and to what extent do current film artists and technologists integrate memory, history, and heritage into the process of innovation and future-building? (3) how does a culture's heritage and history of trauma interact with transnational discourses on innovation? This project will answer these questions through ethnography and archival analysis of the remaining and reconstructed historical media from before, during and after the Khmer Rouge period. The researcher will trace the continuities and discontinuities between historical media and new media production, charting ways that contemporary innovators rely on, reconstruct, or rebel from their cultural heritage. This research will also explore ways that contemporary innovation intersects within a transnational context of computing, in order to understand the innovation milieu within a cultural context.