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

这个项目将通过观察媒体和计算的交集，询问计算在边缘化环境中是如何以及以什么方式出现的，例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机文化。它将通过调查跨国力量和当地文化如何相互作用来考察记忆和媒体之间的关系。它将记录创新的多样性，这些创新对与技术有关的发展倡议具有实际意义。这项研究的结果将引起当地和国际政策制定者、资助者和当地社区的兴趣。它将有助于了解政策和发展资金如何在地方社区努力改善发展成果的基础上再接再厉。这项研究将解决三个主要的研究问题：(1)媒体展品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)一种文化的遗产和创伤历史如何与关于创新的跨国话语相互作用？该项目将通过对红色高棉时期之前、期间和之后遗留下来的和重建的历史媒体进行人种学和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生产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。这项研究还将探索当代创新如何在计算的跨国背景下交叉，以便理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.