Transnational STS Media-Making: Producing Films and Videos for Research, Classroom and Beyond

Session Submission Type: Open Panel

Abstract

4S already promotes innovative ways of presenting research. It has been engaged with film/video for many years via the Making & Doing Project and screenings of Ethnografilm festivals’ official selections at recent annual meetings. This panel builds on that foundation by convening filmmakers and video ethnographers to discuss their strategies for transforming their research into visual media that transgress research domains and offer alternative ways to generate scholarship. As media-making is a transnational global pursuit that transects regional, cultural, and linguistic differences, the panel can serve as a roadmap to future researchers with diverse research commitments and transnational, global projects who are considering this form to publish their work.

Sub Unit

• Papers for Open Panels / Making transnational STS Films and Videos: Who, What, Where, How, and Why of crossing domains of sciences and technologies through media-making?

Individual Presentations

• Capturing Research on Film - Jarita Holbrook, University of the Western Cape

• Ethnografilm and Filmmaking in STS - Wesley Shrum, Louisiana State University

• Researching Extraction, Refusing Extractive Research - Merle Davis, York University

• Fallout - Gordon Murray, University of Winchester

Session Organizer

• Jarita Holbrook, University of the Western Cape