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Personal Visual Collecting and Self-Cataloguing
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Chapter 6 analyzes the growing role of the visual in social media practices in terms of tensions between sharing, impression management and self-cataloging.
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Distinguished Professor Larissa Hjorth is an artist and digital ethnographer. Hjorth has two decades experience working in cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, collaborative creative practice and socially innovative digital media research. Hjorth is currently the Design & Creative Practice ECP Platform Director at RMIT University and visiting Professor at University of Osaka co*design center. Since 2000, Hjorth has been researching the socio-cultural dimensions of mobile media and gaming cultures in the Asia–Pacific—these studies are outlined in her books such as Mobile Media in the Asia-Pacific (Routledge, 2009), Games & Gaming (Berg, 2010), Online@ AsiaPacific (with Arnold, Routledge, 2013), Understanding Social Media (with Hinton, Sage, 2013), Gaming in Social, Locative and Mobile Media (with Richardson, Palgrave, 2014), Digital Ethnography (with Pink, Horst, Postill, Lewis and Tacchi (Sage, 2016), Screen Ecologies (with Pink, Sharp and Williams, MIT Press, 2016) and Haunting Hands (with K. Cumiskey, Oxford Uni Press, 2016).
Kana Ohashi is a postdoc fellow at the Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Japan. Her PhD is from Keio University and she studied Documentary Film making at MET FILM SCHOOL. Her research interests: mobilities studies, sociology of families, and video ethnography. She is especially interested in how people experience migration and how people maintain long-distance relationships with their family members. Currently she is making ethnographic videos on transnational lives in Japan.
Jolynna Sinanan is a senior research fellow at in the School of Media and Communication at University of Sydney, Australia. Prior to this post, she was a VC postdoc at RMIT University, and before that she was a Research Fellow in Anthropology at University College London with the Why We Post project, funded by the European Research Council, which compared uses of social media across eight countries. She is currently finishing a book from the study, Social Media in Trinidad (UCL Press) and is the co-author of Visualising Facebook (UCL Press) and Webcam (Polity) with Daniel Miller.
Sarah Pink is Professor and Director of the emerging technologies lab at Monash University, Australia. She is Visiting Professor at Halmstad University, Sweden and Loughborough University, UK, and Guest Professor at Free University, Berlin, Germany. Her recent works are usually collaborative and include the books Theoretical Scholarship and Applied Practice (2017), Digital Materialities (2016), Digital Ethnography: principles and practice (2016), Screen Ecologies (2016), Doing Sensory Ethnography 2nd edition (2015), and Media, Anthropology and Public Engagement (2105). Less conventional works include Un/Certainty iBook (2015), Laundry Lives documentary film (2015) and the Energy and Digital Living website www.energyanddigitalliving.com.
Heather Horst is Professor in the School of Media and Communication at University of Sydney, Australia. Her research focuses upon understanding how digital technologies, mobile phones and other forms of material culture mediate relationships, learning, and mobility. These themes are reflected in her publications which include The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication (Horst and Miller 2006, Berg), Hanging Out, Messing Around and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with Digital Media (Ito, et al. 2010, The MIT Press), Digital Anthropology (Horst and Miller Eds 2013, Berg), Digital Ethnography: Principles and Practices (Pink, Horst, et al, 2016, Sage), The Routledge Companion of Digital Ethnography (Hjorth, Horst, Galloway and Bell Eds, 2016, Routledge) and Location Technologies in International Context (Wilken, Goggin and Horst, eds. 2017, Routledge). Her current research, funded by the Australian Research Council, the European Union Horizon 20/20 Program and industry partners, explores transformations in the mobile telecommunications industry and the emergence of mobile, social and locative media practices across the Asia-Pacific region.
Fumitoshi Kato (Ph.D., Communication) is currently working as a Professor at the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University, Japan. His research interests include: communication theory, media studies, socio-cultural impacts of new technologies, qualitative research methods. He is especially interested in the use of camera phones in the context of place-making and community development. For the past ten years, he has been conducting field research in various local communities in Japan, with a primary focus on the notion of “mobile learning.”
Baohua Zhou is a Professor and Assistant Dean at the School of Journalism, Fudan University. He is director of the new media communication master program and associate director of Media and Public Opinion Research Center at Fudan University. He was a visiting scholar at University of Pennsylvania. Zhou was awarded the Changjiang Young Scholar by the Ministry of Education of China and Excellent Young Scholar Award by the Chinese Association for History of Journalism and Communication. His research focuses on digital media, media effects, public opinion, and data mining. Current research projects include: social differentiation, media use, and citizenship engagement in China; ICTs and migrant workers; social media and journalism, and public opinion on social media, among others. His research has been published in Asian Journal of Communication, Chinese Journal of Communication, Communication & Society, and various communication journals in China.