Summary:
I am an Anthropologist and Assistant Professor of Critical Studies at California College of the Arts. I study how people use media to express technical identities, share aspects of the self, and accomplish civic engagement.
I am also Editor-in-Chief of The CASTAC Blog, which is the blog of the Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing. Please contact me if you would like to post on the blog.
Contact Information:
Email: plange@cca.edu
Mailing Address:
California College of the Arts
1111 Eighth Street
San Francisco, CA 94107-2247
Video Blogs:
AnthroVlog
AnthroVlog on YouTube
Twitter:
pglange
Education
Ph.D. Anthropology
M.A. Anthropology
University of Michigan
A.M. International Policy Studies
A.B. History
Stanford University
Research Interests:
Anthropological, visual, and linguistic studies of digital media; technical identity; online competencies; emotions; place; pragmatics; marginal words; anthropology of art; interactional reciprocity
Current Research Projects:
Video rants as civic engagement
Video mediated place
Past Research Projects:
YouTube
Video Bloggers
Digital Youth and Informal Learning
Online Text Gaming (MUDs, MUSHes)
Computer use in Celebration, Florida
Virtual Reality equipment study at CyberMind Entertainment Facility, San Francisco
I am an Anthropologist and Assistant Professor of Critical Studies at California College of the Arts. I study how people use media to express technical identities, share aspects of the self, and accomplish civic engagement.
I am also Editor-in-Chief of The CASTAC Blog, which is the blog of the Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing. Please contact me if you would like to post on the blog.
Contact Information:
Email: plange@cca.edu
Mailing Address:
California College of the Arts
1111 Eighth Street
San Francisco, CA 94107-2247
Video Blogs:
AnthroVlog
AnthroVlog on YouTube
Twitter:
pglange
Education
Ph.D. Anthropology
M.A. Anthropology
University of Michigan
A.M. International Policy Studies
A.B. History
Stanford University
Research Interests:
Anthropological, visual, and linguistic studies of digital media; technical identity; online competencies; emotions; place; pragmatics; marginal words; anthropology of art; interactional reciprocity
Current Research Projects:
Video rants as civic engagement
Video mediated place
Past Research Projects:
YouTube
Video Bloggers
Digital Youth and Informal Learning
Online Text Gaming (MUDs, MUSHes)
Computer use in Celebration, Florida
Virtual Reality equipment study at CyberMind Entertainment Facility, San Francisco
News
and Upcoming Events
April
19-20, 2013
I am looking forward to presenting my paper on work and play at YouTube meet-ups at the Southwestern Anthropology Association Conference. I'll also be screening a sneak preview of my ethnographic film, Hey Watch This: Sharing the Self Through Media on Saturday. Check it out!
November 2012
I will be presenting a paper on lip synching at the Society for Ethnomusicology in New Orleans! Can't wait!
May 31-June 1, 2012
I was invited to participate in the Knight Foundation Technology for Engagement Summit. The workshop seeks to explore how online tools can increase meaningful civic engagement.
May 14-June 8, 2012
My paper was selected for the Virtual Conference at the International Communication Association meeting. Can't come to Phoenix? Check out the online conference papers, including mine entitled, "Rhetoricizing Visual Literacies." This paper received a "Top 6 Paper" award from the Language and Social Interaction Division of ICA.
March 1-3, 2012
Check out the upcoming Digital Media and Learning Conference in San Francisco. My presentation is called, "Six Degrees of Specialization: How Youth Learn on YouTube."
September 1-2, 2011
I will be a keynote speaker at the Transforming Audiences 3 conference at the University of Westminster in London. Looks like a great mix of researchers in online and mobile media, everyday creativity, and DIY Culture. See you there! An abstract and reference list for my talk can be found here. The video is located here.
I am looking forward to presenting my paper on work and play at YouTube meet-ups at the Southwestern Anthropology Association Conference. I'll also be screening a sneak preview of my ethnographic film, Hey Watch This: Sharing the Self Through Media on Saturday. Check it out!
November 2012
I will be presenting a paper on lip synching at the Society for Ethnomusicology in New Orleans! Can't wait!
May 31-June 1, 2012
I was invited to participate in the Knight Foundation Technology for Engagement Summit. The workshop seeks to explore how online tools can increase meaningful civic engagement.
May 14-June 8, 2012
My paper was selected for the Virtual Conference at the International Communication Association meeting. Can't come to Phoenix? Check out the online conference papers, including mine entitled, "Rhetoricizing Visual Literacies." This paper received a "Top 6 Paper" award from the Language and Social Interaction Division of ICA.
March 1-3, 2012
Check out the upcoming Digital Media and Learning Conference in San Francisco. My presentation is called, "Six Degrees of Specialization: How Youth Learn on YouTube."
September 1-2, 2011
I will be a keynote speaker at the Transforming Audiences 3 conference at the University of Westminster in London. Looks like a great mix of researchers in online and mobile media, everyday creativity, and DIY Culture. See you there! An abstract and reference list for my talk can be found here. The video is located here.
Recent
Papers and Publications
“Learning Real
Life Lessons from Online Games,”
Games and
Culture, 6(1), 2011. An online
version is available here.
“Achieving Creative Integrity on YouTube: Reciprocities and Tensions," Enculturation 8, September 2010.
“Creative Production,” Lange, Patricia G. and Mizuko Ito, in Hanging Out, Messing Around, Geeking Out: Living and Learning with New Media (Ito et al.). Cambridge: MIT Press, 2010.
“Videos of Affinity on YouTube,” in The YouTube Reader, Patrick Vonderau and Pelle Snickars, Eds. Pp. 228-247. Swedish National Library Press, Distributed by Wallflower Press, 2009.
Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project, Mizuko Ito, Heather Horst, Matteo Bittanti, danah boyd, Becky Herr-Stephenson, Patricia G. Lange, C.J. Pascoe, and Laura Robinson. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009.
“Conversational Morality and Information Circulation: How Tacit Notions about Good and Evil Influence Knowledge Exchange” Human Organization, 68(2): 218-229, Summer 2009. Full text is available here.
“(Mis)Conceptions about YouTube,” Video Vortex Reader: Responses to YouTube, Geert Lovink and Sabine Niederer, Eds. Pp. 87-100. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2008
“Living in YouTubia: Bordering on Civility,” in Proceedings of the Southwestern Anthropological Association Conference, April 10-12, 2008, Pp. 98-106.
“Achieving Creative Integrity on YouTube: Reciprocities and Tensions," Enculturation 8, September 2010.
“Creative Production,” Lange, Patricia G. and Mizuko Ito, in Hanging Out, Messing Around, Geeking Out: Living and Learning with New Media (Ito et al.). Cambridge: MIT Press, 2010.
“Videos of Affinity on YouTube,” in The YouTube Reader, Patrick Vonderau and Pelle Snickars, Eds. Pp. 228-247. Swedish National Library Press, Distributed by Wallflower Press, 2009.
Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project, Mizuko Ito, Heather Horst, Matteo Bittanti, danah boyd, Becky Herr-Stephenson, Patricia G. Lange, C.J. Pascoe, and Laura Robinson. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009.
“Conversational Morality and Information Circulation: How Tacit Notions about Good and Evil Influence Knowledge Exchange” Human Organization, 68(2): 218-229, Summer 2009. Full text is available here.
“(Mis)Conceptions about YouTube,” Video Vortex Reader: Responses to YouTube, Geert Lovink and Sabine Niederer, Eds. Pp. 87-100. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2008
“Living in YouTubia: Bordering on Civility,” in Proceedings of the Southwestern Anthropological Association Conference, April 10-12, 2008, Pp. 98-106.