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Summary:
I am an anthropologist and visiting scholar at the University of Southern California. I study how people use media to share aspects of the self.
Email: plange@usc.edu

Video Blogs:
AnthroVlog
AnthroVlog on YouTube

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:
YouTube
Video Bloggers

Past Research Projects:
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
AAA November 19, 2010 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM (Chair)
Transformational Studies in Development, Globalization, Media, and Practice: Papers Honoring Conrad Kottak
Please join us in honoring the wonderful work and contributions of Conrad Kottak!

AAA November 19, 2010 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM (Paper Presenter)
Ready for Prime Time: Toward an Anthropology of New Media


June 2, 2010, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM:
I am scheduled to present my talk, "Ranting on YouTube: Analysis of a Genre" at the Department of Anthropology Discourse Lab meeting at UCLA.

March 19, 2010, 8:00 AM:
I will present my talk, "Quieting the Monads: Comparing the Aesthetics and Social Struggles of Italian Neorealists and Video Bloggers" at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference in Los Angeles.
“Quieting the Monads: Comparing the Aesthetics and Social Struggles of Italian Neorealists and Video Bloggers” presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, March 19, 2010, in Los Angeles, California.

• “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.