Gardening Metadata in the New Media Ecology: A Manifesto (of Sorts) for Ethnographic Film

Cool, Jennifer

doi:10.1111/aman.12081

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Multimodality

Collins¹,

Durington²

2018

The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology

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Multimodality describes anthropological research through different media and along different platforms, including social media. Although anthropological work has involved multimodal forms from the beginnings of the discipline, multimodality has typically been pushed to the margins, with anthropologists achieving academic success only to the extent that they were able to produce academic monographs and journal articles in addition to their multimodal work. Accordingly, multimodality develops critical themes that emerge from classic debates in anthropological research, including an emphasis on process, the development of multimedia, the questioning of the canon and the formation of undergraduate and graduate education in anthropology. Through these debates, multimodal anthropology has emerged as a locus of engagement that includes blogs and social media, simulation and gaming, design, multisensorial orientations, and a restructuring of visual research. In addition, the future promises to bring new forms of engagement through multiple media and platforms.

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Multimodality

Collins¹,

Durington²

2018

The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology

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Nothing to see here: developmental frames and discontent in Chinese glacier tourism

Gossage

2024

Asian Anthropology

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Multimodality: An Invitation

Collins

Durington

Gill

2017

American Anthropologist

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This section used to be called Visual Anthropology. Its new name-Multimodal Anthropologies-reflects changes in the media ecologies we engage as anthropologists, changes that have broadened our perspective to include other forms of media practice, while remaining inclusive of visual anthropology. Many of these changes can be linked to three developments: (1) the (relative) democratization and integration of media production; (2) the shift toward engagement and collaboration in anthropological research; and (3) the dynamic roles of anthropologists vis-à-vis both the profession and the communities in which they work. Together, these changes suggest a new framework, multimodal anthropology, by which we mean not only an anthropology that works across multiple media but one that also engages in public anthropology and collaborative anthropology through a field of differentially linked media platforms. This is not, however, a decisive "break" with the past. Many of us already practice multimodal anthropology (Collins and Durington 2014;Cool 2014;Edwards 1997;Pink 2011;Postill 2011;Stewart 2013). When we consider the different opportunities and possibilities for engaging with ethnographically intended media in the age of diverse tools and platforms, we see multimodal anthropology. When we look at the transmedia installations of Ethnographic Terminalia, we see articulations of multimodal anthropology. Multimodal anthropology is also encapsulated within the numerous visual, aural, and tactile media that anthropologists produce, post, and share-the growing decoupage of social media that is one symptom of a changing anthropological practice. Multimodal practice is not limited to self-identification as a visual anthropologist. Rather, it encompasses this subdiscipline and also invites practitioners from within and outside anthropology. Finally, we see multimodality in the ways communities of nonanthropologists interact with us, from para-anthropological productions to critique and commentary. In what follows, we lay out our vision and ever-expanding areas of interest for this section as we explore the transformative potentialities of the multimodal. It is meant less as a provocation than an invitation to submit works that engage multimodal possibilities.

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Gardening Metadata in the New Media Ecology: A Manifesto (of Sorts) for Ethnographic Film

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Nothing to see here: developmental frames and discontent in Chinese glacier tourism

Multimodality: An Invitation

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