Multimodal Ambivalence: A Manifesto for Producing in S@!#t Times

Astacio, Patricia Alvarez; Dattatreyan, Ethiraj Gabriel; Shankar, Arjun

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“…TikTok's algorithm and its reading of users through engagement analytics leaves me feeling a sense of ambivalence as described by Alvarez et. al (2021) about the ethical implications of this form of multimodal research and by Takaragawa et.…”

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Do I Belong on TikTok? Algorithimography and Self-Making

Cerretani

2023

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Building on works in digital anthropology, belonging, and self-making, this article delves into physiological aspects of digital lifeworlds. Through collaborative ethnography the author worked with their sibling and the TikTok Ethnography Collective (TEC) to explore TikTok’s utility as a site of self-discovery and learning. From the processes which unfold during the collaboration, a fledgling methodology of algorithmography emerges and is developed through the article. The use of digital ethnographic methods mediated the relationship between the author and their sibling, opening an exploration into self-making practices on TikTok. Building on recent literature around TikTok and self-making, (Bimo and Bhandari 2022), and through “Tik-Talks'' with the author’s sister which centre on multiple forms of diagnoses with Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (HEDS), this article examines TikTok’s capacity and shortcomings as a place where one can learn to belong against the grain of neoliberal and capitalist cultures.

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Do I Belong on TikTok? Algorithimography and Self-Making

Cerretani

2023

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“…Quite the opposite: prolonged exposure to images of suffering can contribute to “compassion fatigue” and PTSD‐like symptoms of inaction among global audiences of visual depictions of trauma (Torchin 2012). In a parallel conversation among anthropologists, we have seen a blossoming enthusiasm for the potentials of multimodal anthropological methods promised through the relative democratization of media production technologies (Collins et al 2017), followed by an ambivalence toward these same methods when accounting for how they fall short of creating the hoped‐for social and political change (Alvarez et al 2021; Takaragawa et al 2019).…”

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NESVADERANI

2023

Visual Anthropology Review

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This article explores the implications of the Making Home Project, a participatory audio‐visual media project with migrant and refugee youth in Iran. This project does not picture the faces of youth as they express caring relationships and attachments to the people and places within the migrant neighborhoods where they reside—places locally characterized as poor, dangerous, and transient. I examine the audio, the visual and the off‐screen encounters of this participatory production to demonstrate how media outcomes are shaped by Afghan youth's differently situated refugee experiences in Iran. Ultimately, I argue that space and place are actualized through the embodied act of youth expressing and producing audio‐visual media about their homeplace.

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“…Nowadays we all are ostensibly doing multimodal anthropology, perhaps clumsily (Westmoreland & Luning 2018) or unreflexively (Takaragawa et al 2019) or even ambivalently (Alvarez Astacio et al 2021). With the generational shift in media sensibilities, in which increasingly interconnected socio-technological devices and the proliferation of DIY media experimentation intersect with the ethical imperative for participatory research collaboration, anthropologists grapple daily with various forms of mediation (Collins et al 2017b).…”

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Multimodality: Reshaping Anthropology

Westmoreland

2022

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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Multimodality offers anthropologists an inflection on the way we do research, produce scholarship, teach students, and relate to diverse publics. Advancing an expanding array of tools, practices, and concepts, multimodality signals a change in the way we pay attention and attend to the diverse possibilities for understanding the human experience. Multimodality recognizes the way smartphones, social media, and digital software transform research dynamics in unprecedented ways, while also drawing upon long-standing practices of recording and presenting research through images, sounds, objects, and text. Rather than flatten out ethnographic participant observation into logocentric practices of people-writing, multimodal ethnographies diversify their modes of inquiry to produce more-than-textual mediations of sensorial research experiences. By emphasizing kaleidoscopic qualities that give shape to an emergent, multidimensional, and diversifying anthropology, multimodality proposes alternatives to enduring and delimiting dichotomies, particularly text/image. These new configurations invite unrealized disciplinary constellations and research collaborations to emerge, but also require overhauling the infrastructures that support training, dissemination, and assessment. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Anthropology Volume 51 is October 2022. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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Multimodal Ambivalence: A Manifesto for Producing in S@!#t Times

Cited by 12 publications

References 32 publications

Do I Belong on TikTok? Algorithimography and Self-Making

Do I Belong on TikTok? Algorithimography and Self-Making

Embodying Place

Multimodality: Reshaping Anthropology

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