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- Title
Paraethnographic FilmVirtual Enactment and Collaboration in Our Digital Selves.
- Authors
Boellstorff, Tom
- Abstract
The film Our Digital Selves: My Avatar Is Me (Bernhard Drax, director: 74m, 2018, 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.
- Subjects
VIRTUAL reality; PEOPLE with disabilities; SELF; FILMMAKING; ARTISTIC collaboration; AVATARS (Virtual reality); 3-D films
- Publication
Visual Anthropology Review, 2021, Vol 37, Issue 1, p8
- ISSN
1058-7187
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/var.12225