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

博士论文资助：媒体创造与重建的历史和民族志调查

• 批准号: 1656189
• 负责人: Steven Jackson
• 金额: $ 1.55万
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-03-01 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1656189&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Grant; Historical; Ethnographic

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.

该项目将通过查看媒体与计算的交汇处，询问在边缘化的环境中如何以及以什么方式计算出现在边缘化的环境中。该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。它将通过研究跨国力量和局部培养方式如何相互作用来研究记忆与媒体之间的关系。它将记录具有与技术相关开发计划的实际进口创新的多样性。本研究的结果将引起地方和国际政策制定者，资助者和当地社区的关注。它将有助于理解政策和发展资金如何在当地社区改善发展成果的努力上。这项研究将解决三个主要研究问题：（1）媒体展示如何保持连续性或主题变化？ （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，历史和遗产整合到创新和未来建设的过程中？ （3）文化的遗产和创伤历史如何与创新的跨国话语相互作用？该项目将通过民族志学和档案分析来回答这些问题，并从上，期间和之后对剩余和重建的历史媒体进行分析。研究人员将追踪历史媒体与新媒体制作之间的连续性和不连续性，并绘制当代创新者从其文化遗产中依赖，重建或反叛的方式。这项研究还将探讨当代创新在计算的跨国环境中相交的方式，以便在文化背景下了解创新环境。