TBB199Y1 Lecture Notes - Mediascape, Americanization, Ethnography
26 May 2013
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Student experiences: confusing, never done ethnography before, hard at first because love is very broad, not sure if ethnography is done as an insider or from outsider perspective. Deeper understanding of the unfamiliar to comprehend and to relate to: makes familiar strange. How to make things in our own culture less familiar, less taken for granted. Purpose: experiment how it will work out, could have more structure and more formal requirements, to make it easier, less formal, experiment with own observations. How ethnography can be done: can do it chronologically, can go back to older entries to revise and reflect, chronological not mandatory. Mediascape: media has become globalized, transnational: sometimes predictable ways, sometimes unpredictable ways. Allows people to have different ways of thinking about ways, different relationships, Maybe not the best opportunities for parent but best for child: security, political, medical. Jennifer herse: anthropology and public health: health consequences of those social cultural changes.
