Digital Drama

Teaching and Learning Art and Media in Tanzania
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-415-89411-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 399 g

Reihe: Innovative Ethnographies

The aim of this book is to explore digital media and intercultural interaction at an arts college in Tanzania, through innovative forms of ethnographic representation. The book and the series website weave together visual and aural narratives, interviews and observations, life stories and video documentaries, art performances and productions. It paints a vivid portrayal of everyday life in East Africa’s only institute for practical art training, while tracing the rich cultural history of a state that has mixed tribalism, nationalism, Pan-Africanism, and cosmopolitanism in astonishingly creative ways.

While following the anthropological tradition of thick description, Digital Drama employs a more artistic and accessible style of writing. Dramatic, ethnographic details are interspersed with theoretical reflections and postulations to explain and make sense of the unfolding narratives. The accompanying website visualizes and sensualizes the stories narrated in the book, unfolding a dramatic world of African dance, music, theater, and digital culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Uimonen, Paula

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Mise-en-Scène 1. Introduction 2. The Storyboard of Digital Drama Part 2: Cultural Transformations 3. The Digital Drama of Executive Transformation 4. The Social Aesthetics of Art Training 5. Traditional-Modern Hybrid Music Production Part 3: Cultural Dependencies 6. Cultural Exchange and Friendship 7. Touristic Spectacle, Executive Vision, and Virtual Liminality 8. Chaos, Confusion, and Moral Crisis 9. Post-Script: Behind the Scenes

Über Autor(innen)

Paula Uimonen is the Director of the Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions (Spider), Department of Computer and Systems Science, Stockholm University. She is one of the founding scholars of an emerging sub-discipline digital anthropology, which focuses on digital media and communication technologies in different social and cultural contexts.