“DIGITIZED GRAMMARS: CONTEXTS OF NARRATIVE CONSTRUCTION IN COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION.”

Saturday, November 21, 2015: 1:45 PM-3:30 PM 102 (Colorado Convention Center) This session proposes an examination of digitized grammars: the differing sets of linguistic, visual, and sound cues which act as indicators for meaning construction during computer-mediated communication (CMC). Depending upon the Internet platform and the medium used, digitized grammars may consist of structures that […]

TRANSNATIONAL PROCESSES OF MEDIATIZATION WITHIN A DIGITAL MOMENT

Saturday, November 21, 2015: 4:00 PM-5:45 PM 603 (Colorado Convention Center) Digital sociality is a relatively new space for ethnographic inquiry. As such, anthropologists are beginning to analyze the online/offline engagements of ethnographic subjects. And yet, we are not starting from zero when we consider the online lives of participants, particularly when we consider recent […]

GRAPPLING WITH THE FAMILIAR/STRANGE IN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDIES OF YOUNG PEOPLE DOING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Friday, November 20, 2015: 10:15 AM-12:00 PM 706 (Colorado Convention Center) An increasing number of anthropologists of education are turning their attention to studies of science and technology among young people in schools, in learning communities outside of school, in sites of popular culture, and in virtual spaces. Drawing on the longer tradition of science […]