Event Details

Date:
Friday, 22 July 2016
Time:
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Room:
262
UQ Location:
Steele Building (St Lucia)
Event category(s):

Event Contact

Name:
Dr Yancey Orr
Phone:
336 51012
Email:
y.orr@uq.edu.au
Org. Unit:
Social Science

Event Description

Full Description:
In this talk, A/Prof Golub will discuss the ethics and politics of conducting fieldwork in two very different locations: The Porgera gold mine in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea, and the massively multiplayer video game World of Warcraft. How do the ethics of fieldwork and ethnography differ when one field site is a politically contested mine, and the other is a video game where research subjects are rarely in the same room with you? How can anthropologists protects the identities of their respondents in a virtual world where literally every player and object is googleable? How do we become responsible expert knowers of a politically contested social process like a mining encounter? In this talk A/Prof Golub will answer these questions, and describe his shifting relationship with his field sites over time.

Directions to UQ

Google Map:
Directions:
St Lucia Campus | Gatton campus.

Event Tools

Share This Event

Print this Article Print

Print this Article Email

Share this Article Share

Rate This Event


Tweet This Event

Export This Event

Export calendar

Calendar Tools

Filter by Keywords/Dates

Featured Calendars


Subscribe via RSS