The videos, linked below, are visual essays of my on-going critical study of our world of mediated moving-images. Each is shaped by several methodological agendas:
bricolage
reflexivity
performance
surrealism
ethnography
civic media
feminism
journalism
position
storytelling
transgression
democracy
ambiguity
objectivity
meaning
montage
My intention is four-fold:
- to unveil media making language and technique
for a critically informed public
- to challenge media making power
through access and production
- to ‘inoculate’ against insidious media making persuasion
by building media literacy skills
- to invigorate civic participation in critical media making
stand up and speak
Cultural Farming: Media appropriation as (auto)ethnographic performance and critical documentation.
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An American, living
in Canada, recusing
a PhD candidacy
for the more vital
MnP media degree
(Nurse Practitioner)
in critical media ethnography.
advertising aggregation animals anthropology audio aurality automobiles A/V blackness body camera capitalism cartoons celebrity childhood children citizen journalism communication contextualization copyright design deviance
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