Digital documentary, Interaction and Storytelling: A dialogue on recent documentary practices

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Digital documentary, Interaction and Storytelling: A dialogue on recent documentary practices

By Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC)

Date and time

Thu, 17 Mar 2016 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM AEDT

Location

RMIT Design Hub

100.10.Pavilion 4 Carlton, VIC 3000 Australia

Description

With rapid advancements in the affordances of media technology, new forms of documentary practice are emerging. The question at hand is, how can we utilise these to engage with the real? This conversation between two women scholars working in the field spans quite different approaches and findings. Citt Williams, a professional practitioner, explores how technology currently enables us to tell stories of environmental complexity, whilst through an ethnographic lense, Franziska Weidle develops meta-perspectives on documentary filmmakers using digital technology.

Franziska Weidle is a research fellow at the German Research Foundation’s Training Group “Literature and Dissemination of Literature in the Digital Age” and a PhD candidate in Cultural and Visual Anthropology at the University of Göttingen. She works as an assistant of the Göttingen International Ethnographic Film Festival as well as a contributing editor for CulAnth.org and litlog.de.

Citt Williams is a passionate and proactive filmmaker and environmental scientist. Previously based at the United Nations University Media Studio in Tokyo, she is now embarking on her doctorate work with Professor Sarah Pink at RMIT’s Digital Ethnography Research Centre. She holds a MA in documentary (AFTRS), MSc in Climate Change (University of East Anglia) and MSc in Social Science of the Internet (University of Oxford). @cittw

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The Digital Ethnography Research Centre DERC focuses on understanding a contemporary world where digital and mobile technologies are increasingly inextricable from the environments and relationships in which everyday life plays out. DERC excels in both academic scholarship and in our applied work with external partners from industry and other sectors.

DERC approaches this world and how we experience it, through innovative, reflexive and ethical ethnographic approaches, developed through anthropology, media and cultural studies, design, arts and documentary practice and games research.

Our research is incisive, interventional and internationally leading. Going beyond the call of pure academia we combine academic scholarship with applied practice to produce research, analysis and dissemination projects that are innovative, and based on ethnographic insights.

DERC partners and collaborates with a range of institutions in Australia and globally, including other universities, companies and other organisations. This includes collaborative research projects, conferences symposia and workshops, and international visits, fellowships and publications.

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