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An Ethnography: The ‘Talking Head’ Video as a Form of Text

Submitted by leamirella on Thu, 05/19/2011 - 6:50pm

An Ethnography: The ‘Talking Head’ Video as a Form of Text


This paper builds upon my last paper for this class ‘My Experiment’ which took the form of a glog-and-video combination that tested out how my own personal learning as well as the learning of my audience is affected by the medium through which I presented my paper. Conversations were sparked after I published this paper to the class’ Serendip site and this paper is part, my own ‘lived experience’ and observations of user behaviours and part analysis of processing and learning from the ‘talking head’ videos that have grown in popularity over the video-sharing website, YouTube.

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My Experiment.

Submitted by leamirella on Fri, 04/22/2011 - 4:18pm

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Dynamic Constellation

Submitted by leamirella on Wed, 03/02/2011 - 11:35pm
Dynamic constellation
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Beauty: A cultural construction or the 'natural order'?

Submitted by leamirella on Fri, 02/11/2011 - 10:33am

Mirella Deocadiz
Gender, Information, Science and Technology
Beauty: A Cultural Construction or the Natural Order?


In the article, “The Face Value of Dreams”: Gender, Race, Class and the Politics of Cosmetic Surgery, Bañales argues that the reason why women choose to get plastic surgery is that it serves to alter or erase racial or ethnic markers. However, in Dull and West’s article “Accounting for Cosmetic Surgery: The Accomplishment of Gender”, cosmetic surgeons talk about restoring the ‘natural order’ of things rather than conforming to a societal standard. This paper aims to discuss whether the perception of beauty and attractiveness are social constructions or whether this perception takes root in more biological grounding.

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