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

摘要：这个REU网站招募了一群不同的学生，他们主要来自地区社区学院，对巴尔的摩市区的一个社区进行人类学研究。REU网站通过公共人类学的视角使用人类学方法，证明人类学研究与学生研究人员和社区参与者的相关性。该网站主要面向第一年的学生，即那些至少接受过一学期(或同等)社区大学教育的学生。学生们参加在汤森大学举办的研讨会，并使用与媒体人类学的新分支学科相关的一套共同的定性研究方法，对人们对巴尔的摩夏普利德霍尔社区的表征进行协作和实证研究。在利用不同的方法和形式收集数据，包括视觉人类学、参与者观察、社交网络分析和采访的同时，学生们利用他们收集的视觉、文本和音频数据进行协作媒体项目。这些项目有多种形式，但都包括以网络为基础的、对社区中人们生活的多媒体表现，人们可以利用这些表现来发展自己的社区。当学生离开Towson后，他们将在接下来的几个月里分析数据，完成他们的项目，以便在第二年5月向社区、教职员工和下一批学生展示。在此期间，他们与其他参与者(包括教职员工和社区助理)一起维护虚拟社区，以进行额外的协作和指导。在他们的研究经验结束后，教师们继续与学生群体保持联系，以促进向四年制大学的过渡，就研究生项目的申请提供建议，并促进结果的传播。智力优势：1)学生项目使用人类学中重叠的方法，展示了巴尔的摩城市社区不同表现的紧张和矛盾。2)通过与社区居民合作的媒体项目，REU网站开发了应用人类学在新媒体时代的潜力。3)最后，REU网站提供了一个让社区大学生和社区学院转学学生参与原创研究的教学模式。广泛的影响：1)社区大学生对人类学和社会科学研究生教育的兴趣增加。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)学生、教职员工和社区居民对社区学院和社区研究和传播感兴趣的电子网络。

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.