Ethnography on Television: Documentary Video as Pop Culture

This workshop will explore ways in which changing conventions of documentary filmmaking can be used to produce intelligent and entertaining ethnographic video. Participants are asked to read a paper in advance, written by Dr. Vannini and soon to be published in the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography: “Ethnographic Film and Video on Hybrid Television: Learning from the Content, Style, and Distribution of Popular Ethnographic Documentaries.” The article can be downloaded at http://tinyurl.com/nnd5hsd The workshop will be led by Dr. Phillip Vannini, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Innovative Learning and public ethnography in the School of Communication and Culture at Royal Roads University. Dr. Vannini is a leader in moving public ethnography “towards reflexive, sensuous, interpretive, narrative, arts-informed, and more-than-representational qualitative research” (Vannini & Milne, 2014, forthcoming). He works on innovations in knowledge dissemination to make research accessible and available to non-academics and through a variety of media.

More information at: http://www.uregina.ca/events/ethnography-on-television-documentary-video-as-pop-culture