Category: Refrence
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Envisioning the deconstruction of traditional family narratives through the five senses
Richie’s class helped me a lot, and was the first time I started to notice that visual is not the only way and means to create. I began to notice that for a topic as popular and personal as family memories or family narratives, an overly figurative work or vision could be counterproductive and leave…
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Advantages of an interactive and entertaining approach
The most popular way of interactivity and entertainment, in my opinion, is video games. Games, as the ninth art, have a fusion of all the arts of graphics, sound, and text, along with a great sense of interactivity and exploration. Players are able to have an almost perfect immersion in the experience, which allows them…
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China’s Gen Z group disconnected from families
1.Reason： 1.1.The Gen Z community is in China, the first to embrace the internet from a young age. Unlike their parents who received the Internet when they were older, they receive information in a more fragmented and visualized manner.This creates a generational divide that is difficult to overcome. Generation Z sees social media as an…
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Why the current stage of family information dissemination is backwards
1.The main way nowadays： This is data obtained from interviews with 50 people from China’s Generation Z population.Oral history and books are still the most dominant methods of family history and family information dissemination. The disadvantages of such methods are: 1. having to be present or owning the books; 2. in the current era of…
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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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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…