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From Audience Ethnographer to Strategic Comm Evaluator Ystad-Ørecomm Seminar, 1-2 June 2012. Revisiting Media Ethnograhy.
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From AudienceEthnographer to Strategic Comm EvaluatorYstad-Ørecomm Seminar, 1-2 June 2012
Revisiting Media Ethnograhy • From PTR (telenovelas) and ‘formation of publics’ (gaucho-studywith theorists as J.Gonzalez, Giddens, Bourdieu, Bertaux, Audience Research Scholars as Lull) to extremesynchronism and immediategratification studies
The SwingingPendulum • From synchronic to synchronic and diachronic and back again • From identity studies to social change studies to citizen engagement to…
Changingfocus • From audience studies to studies of citizen engagement • From ‘sense-making’ studies to studies of deliberation and participation • From single media to multi-media studies
Methods? • Do theyremain the same? • Can methodsused to ‘understand’, unpackingsense-making and identity formation beusedexplore and assess social change?
Methods • A variety for media use (media diaries, photo-ethnography, screening sessions, FGDs, obsevation, Ind.Interviews, surveys) Connected to: • Family history interviews, documentanalysis for diachrony of families • Urban history studies, Media development studies • Study of program supply
Bridging to new challenges • How much of audience studies and media ethnographycanbeuse in my Tanzania study?
Tanzania STudy • To assess the current situation of youth and to assess how youth experience, make use of and engage in civil society-driven media and communication platforms (analogue or digital) and how this connects to participation in public debate and governance processes • To analyse content and what the above mentioned media and com. platforms do/produce, and how socially inclusive the production processes are
Tanzania Study • To analyse what mechanisms are developed to hold governments accountable and transparent (what advocacy strategies do the involved civil society organisations have, if any?) • To analyse how civil society organisations ensure their own accountability to the groups of citizens the advocate on behalf of