#12840. Paraethnographic FilmVirtual Enactment and Collaboration in Our Digital Selves

2022publication date
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Abstract:
The film Our Digital Selves: My Avatar Is Me (Bernhard Drax, director: 74m, 20XX, https://youtu.be/GQw02-me0W4) chronicles the experiences and insights of disabled persons in the virtual world Second Life. In this article, I focus on the making of the film through collaboration between researchers, filmmakers, and community. By discussing techniques of what I term virtual enactment, I explore how Our Digital Selves constitutes paraethnographic film created through a triple collaboration between community members, filmmakers, and ethnographers. This concept can contribute to visual anthropology as a set of representational and analytical techniques responsive to emergent cultures and communities.
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digital culture; disability; enactment; ethnographic film; virtual worlds

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