Author: Qizhi Che
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Research Introduction & Reading List
After reading much of the literature on digital ethnography and Assmann, Aleida’s literature on memory and cultural awareness, I became interested in how family history and heritage can be documented and preserved using digital means. I find that many psychological or social problems arising from the family of origin of many young people in modern…
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Report on the results of recent family history research
In early April I was in my hometown doing fieldwork about my family history. The methods of investigation are: oral history of elders, research on family sites, and documentary research. At the same time, I am in the process of collating the information I have obtained and am thinking about how to create some digital…
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Methodology and Reflections through Ethnographic Literature Surveys
1.https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVIPk4jRw=/?moveToWidget=3458764622097169588&cot=14 This gave me an idea of how European familists use internet ethnography for family history research. These studies provided me with: how to use data for family history exploration. I can refer to the ‘buffet approach’ to family history research mentioned in this paper, where a significant event for the family, such as a…
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Comment on ‘How Digital Technology Reconstructs Memory Transmission and Identity of Chinese Families?’ Preliminary Conceptualisation
The need for digital entities: Daniel Miller’s material culture research starts from consumption, and regards mass consumption as a creation belonging to the lower levels of human behaviour, the main way for contemporary people to create their own exclusive private life, with the positivity and creativity to resist the vertical of the mainstream ideology; Consumption…
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Perceptions and definitions of human’s ‘symbols’
In my perspective, the human is made of ‘symbols’. But this hermeneutic is too abstract. I hope to sort out my definition and perception of ‘symbols’ through this writing. Firstly, Ernst Cassirer refers to man as a symbolic animal in his book, Theory of Man: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Human Culture. Specific symbols…