Censorship and Information Controls (OxDEG)
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Dates:
Tuesday 11 November 2014, 16:30:00 - 18:00:00
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Location:
Anthropology department, 61 Banbury Road
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Register
To attend, please email your name and affiliation to events@oii.ox.ac.uk
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This session will form a roundtable discussion reflecting on the digital ethnography of censorship practices.
Shireen Walton will facilitate a roundtable discussion reflecting on the digital ethnography of censorship practices. The participants will draw on their current research in regions as varied as Iran, China, and Japan. Questions to be asked include: How does one study the lived experience of a phenomenon which is typically experienced only negatively, as the absence of information? How does one conduct digital ethnography on a subject which is itself often a subject of censorship? What are the ethical implications of conducting research into a topic which can be politically sensitive, participation in which could potentially put informants/research subjects at risk? What is the relationship between censorship and surveillance, and what is the role of surveillance in engendering self-censorship?
About the speakers
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Shireen Walton
Iranian photo blogs and the 'art' of online visual self-representation
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Thomas Flavel
The censorship of Sina Weibo and collective action potential theory
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William Kelly
Censoring Violence in Virtual Dystopia: Issues in the rating of videogames in Japan
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Greg Walton
Using big data and in field ethnography to combat advanced threats to civil society networks