Summary:
I am an anthropologist and visiting scholar in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California. I study how people use media to share aspects of the self.
Contact Information:
Email: plange@usc.edu
Mailing Address:
Department of Anthropology
Grace Ford Salvatori Hall
3601 Watt Way
Ste. 120
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
90089
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 and visiting scholar in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California. I study how people use media to share aspects of the self.
Contact Information:
Email: plange@usc.edu
Mailing Address:
Department of Anthropology
Grace Ford Salvatori Hall
3601 Watt Way
Ste. 120
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
90089
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
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."
November 16, 2011
I will be presenting my talk, "Imaging and Imagining YouTubia: Chronotopes of Meeting Up" at the American Anthropological Association Meeting in Montreal. Hope you can be there!
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.
April 4, 2011
My blog post, "Performing Technical Affiliation," has been published on the Savage Minds anthropology blog.
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."
March 8, 2010
Just published an article in Visual Communication! It is called, "Video-Mediated Nostalgia and the Aesthetics of Technical Competencies."
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."
November 16, 2011
I will be presenting my talk, "Imaging and Imagining YouTubia: Chronotopes of Meeting Up" at the American Anthropological Association Meeting in Montreal. Hope you can be there!
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.
April 4, 2011
My blog post, "Performing Technical Affiliation," has been published on the Savage Minds anthropology blog.
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."
March 8, 2010
Just published an article in Visual Communication! It is called, "Video-Mediated Nostalgia and the Aesthetics of Technical Competencies."
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.