Summary:
I am an anthropologist studying how people use media to share aspects of the self.
Contact Information:
Email: plange@cca.edu
Mailing Address:
TBD
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:
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
I am an anthropologist studying how people use media to share aspects of the self.
Contact Information:
Email: plange@cca.edu
Mailing Address:
TBD
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:
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
Summer
2012
I am joining the faculty of California College of the Arts as an Assistant Professor of Critical Studies! This fall I will be teaching a course in Ethnographic Methods. Tell a friend!
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.
September 5, 2010
Check out my new article discussing use of labor on YouTube. It is called, "Achieving Creative Integrity on YouTube: Reciprocities and Tensions."
I am joining the faculty of California College of the Arts as an Assistant Professor of Critical Studies! This fall I will be teaching a course in Ethnographic Methods. Tell a friend!
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.
September 5, 2010
Check out my new article discussing use of labor on YouTube. It is called, "Achieving Creative Integrity on YouTube: Reciprocities and Tensions."
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.