DIGITAL ORAL NARRATIVES 1*

概要

We are in one of the largest, most diverse and most exciting field sites in the world: Tokyo. We will exploit this fact to explore urban space and place, society and sociality, people and practices through direct ethnographic fieldwork. Based on our readings, you will develop a theme that your group will pursue over the course of the term. This is a "methods" course, so we will use the skills that you have developed over our time at Sophia to do a project of your choosing. Because this course is collaborative, you must have something to being to the class and the students. Class Practice: We will alternate between presenting/discussing the course readings (see below) and presenting in field notes from your site that will illustrate, contradict, expand or dislocate our readings. As the course goes on and your involvement with your field site becomes more complicated, we will shift into developing research themes that will allow you to begin your final project--a website that captures your research. Final Project: Your final work will be a theoretically informed website production based on research that combines background readings and your fieldwork—be it photography, video or audio—into a sustained exploration of a focused theme. Your research will contribute to working collectively on a single site and produce a single class website, with different people responsible for different parts of it. You can see some of your sempai work on Kabucki-cho here: https://tokyourbanethnolab.wixsite.com/shinjuku-kabukicho You can see some of your sempai work on Shibuya here: https://tokyourbanethnolab.wixsite.com/shibuya Reading: Our core readings will cluster around themes, about which we will read a number of short articles or selection from longer works. Urban Anthropology and ethnography LeGates, THE CITY READER Pardo, THE PALGRAVE HANDBOOK OF URBAN ETHNOGRAPHY Space and Place Low, THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF SPACE AND PLACE Gieseking, THE PEOPLE, SPACE AND PLACE READER Graham, THE CYBERCITIES READER Digital Ethnography Hjorth, THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO DIGITAL ETHNOGRAPHY Cruz, REFIGURING TECHNIQUES IN DIGITAL VISUAL RESEARCH (For more of the readings, visit Moodle.) Digital Apparatus: All students must have some sort of smart phone for the data collection apps that we will use. These apps will give us a chance to collect, synthesize and analyze data in a more coherent way, while linking our work to geo-tagging and different map making that will be productive. If you know how your phone works, that is a start, but you must be willing to undertake some degree of commitment to learn the technology and use it to ethnographic effect. Prerequisites: You should have taken some 200-level courses in anthropology or sociology. Prior course in a "methods" class would be very helpful. Japanese speakers and Tokyo-sites will find it easier to “decode” the city’s texts at first, but 'outside people' will bring a fresh perspective, ‘making the familiar strange.’ We will all work to our strengths and compensate for our weaknesses by working together. I suspect that you need to feel strongly about this city—love or hate, anything but indifferent—to make this course fun.

目標

To familiarize yourself with some of the main readings on the culture of cities; to refine your skills in literature review; to generate a project from the literature and your increasingly familiarity with Tokyo; to collect, document and synthesize fieldnotes on the city; to put up a website of your group's final topic as your final project.

授業外の学習

Weekly fieldwork visits to your Tokyo fieldsite to collect notes; weekly meetings (probably on Zoom) with your group to collaborate ; individual consultations with me and the TA; weekly fieldwork. Please see our previous websites Kabuki-cho; https://tokyourbanethnolab.wixsite.com/shinjuku-kabukicho Shibuya: https://tokyourbanethnolab.wixsite.com/shibuya ●Preparation of class materials and reading assignments (60 minutes). ●Work on class assignments (60 minutes) ●Review class lecture and do quizzes (70 minutes)

所要時間: 190 minutes per lecture, at least