Laura Haapio-Kirk
Biographic Data
| ID | 143969 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Haapio-Kirk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Haapio-Kirk |
| SIGNATURE | HAAPIO-KIRK L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7584-5444 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Widening the Frame
Nora Wuttke's Hospital Echoes Installation, Lady David Gallery, SOAS, University of London (13 April-2 May 2023 Moreshin Allahyari, dir. 2020. She Who Knows the Unknown: Kabous, the Right Witness and the Left Witness. Virtual Reality/Digital. Nazlı Dinçel, dir. 2019. Instructions on How to Make a Film. 16 mm
Bringing Ageing to Life: A Comparative Study of Age Categories
This article offers a comparative ethnographic study of ageing as both category and experience. Drawing on simultaneous 16-month ethnographies conducted as part of the ASSA project, we focus on how ageing is being re-defined in eight contexts around the world, with particular focus on the authors' field sites: rural and urban settings in both Japan and Uganda. Despite being among the world's oldest and youngest populations, respectively, there ar…
Emotion work via digital visual communication: A comparative study between China and Japan
Through the smartphone, the production and circulation of digital visual media have become as costless and accessible as audio and text-based communication. It would be challenging to be a contemporary ethnographer without engaging with digital practices which in Japan and China at least, tend towards being highly visual. Digital visual communication is recognised in literature as an effective and accessible form of communication, with an increas…
Doing Multimodal Anthropology of Ageing with Smartphones: Cases from Italy and Japan
Anthrovision, 9.2 | 2021 1 time, we draw on substantive, analytical aspects of our research findings to illustrate how working in/with multimodal ways and forms was directly connected with the research topic.Linking methodology with epistemology in thinking about how we produce certain kinds of knowledge, is central, we argue, to the intentions and realisation of a critical multimodal ethnographic enquiry, of the kind we've sought to practise and…
Book notes: The Global Smartphone: Beyond a Youth Technology
Ageing With Smartphones ‘From Below’: Insights From Japan, Uganda, Al-Quds and Ireland
AGEING WITH SMARTPHONES ‘FROM BELOW’: INSIGHTS FROM JAPAN, UGANDA, AL-QUDS AND IRELAND This session examines new ways to theorize the smartphone, based on a comparative study of smartphone use amongst older people in four different fieldsites for a period of 16 months ethnographic fieldwork. Along with gender, age is one of the primary parameters by which societies throughout history have structured and governed themselves (Spencer, 1990). Since …
Making things matter
In this chapter, the authors aim to demonstrate how a trajectory towards making things matter is not simply aspirational but is actually something they can hope to realise and that could drive material culture studies and digital anthropology in the future. They consider how an alternative to impact evaluation can be an integral part of research design through the use of ethnography. The primary product of ethnography is the monograph; no other f…
Making meaningful lives: Tales from an aging Japan by Iza Kavedžija (2019)
Contemporary Comparative Anthropology - The Why We Post Project
This paper confronts the disparity between a tradition that has defined anthropology as a comparative discipline and the practices which increasingly embrace cultural relativism and the uniqueness of each fieldsite. It suggests that it is possible to resolve this dilemma, through creating a vertical structure that complements the horizontal task of comparison across fieldsites. This vertical structure is composed of different methods of dissemina…
Why We Post
Based on ethnographic research on digital learning from the Why We Post project at UCL Anthropology, this paper outlines how academic insights can benefit pedagogy, reaching beyond traditional modes of education towards public engagement. The paper demonstrates how a spectrum of digital dissemination, ranging from the academic (such as journal papers) to the public (such as a website and MOOC), can transform anthropological research into global e…
How the World Changed Social Media
How the World Changed Social Media is the first book in Why We Post, a book series that investigates the findings of nine anthropologists who each spent 15 months living in communities across the world. This book offers a comparative analysis summarising the results of the research and exploring the impact of social media on politics and gender, education and commerce. What is the result of the increased emphasis on visual communication? Are we b…
Why We Post
How the World Changed Social Media
How the World Changed Social Media is the first book in Why We Post, a book series that investigates the findings of nine anthropologists who each spent 15 months living in communities across the world. This book offers a comparative analysis summarising the results of the research and exploring the impact of social media on politics and gender, education and commerce. What is the result of the increased emphasis on visual communication? Are we b…
Contemporary Comparative Anthropology - The Why We Post Project
This paper confronts the disparity between a tradition that has defined anthropology as a comparative discipline and the practices which increasingly embrace cultural relativism and the uniqueness of each fieldsite. It suggests that it is possible to resolve this dilemma, through creating a vertical structure that complements the horizontal task of comparison across fieldsites. This vertical structure is composed of different methods of dissemina…
Bringing Ageing to Life: A Comparative Study of Age Categories
This article offers a comparative ethnographic study of ageing as both category and experience. Drawing on simultaneous 16-month ethnographies conducted as part of the ASSA project, we focus on how ageing is being re-defined in eight contexts around the world, with particular focus on the authors' field sites: rural and urban settings in both Japan and Uganda. Despite being among the world's oldest and youngest populations, respectively, there ar…
Why We Post
How the World Changed Social Media
How the World Changed Social Media is the first book in Why We Post, a book series that investigates the findings of nine anthropologists who each spent 15 months living in communities across the world. This book offers a comparative analysis summarising the results of the research and exploring the impact of social media on politics and gender, education and commerce. What is the result of the increased emphasis on visual communication? Are we b…
Why We Post
Why We Post
Based on ethnographic research on digital learning from the Why We Post project at UCL Anthropology, this paper outlines how academic insights can benefit pedagogy, reaching beyond traditional modes of education towards public engagement. The paper demonstrates how a spectrum of digital dissemination, ranging from the academic (such as journal papers) to the public (such as a website and MOOC), can transform anthropological research into global e…
Contemporary Comparative Anthropology - The Why We Post Project
This paper confronts the disparity between a tradition that has defined anthropology as a comparative discipline and the practices which increasingly embrace cultural relativism and the uniqueness of each fieldsite. It suggests that it is possible to resolve this dilemma, through creating a vertical structure that complements the horizontal task of comparison across fieldsites. This vertical structure is composed of different methods of dissemina…
Ageing With Smartphones ‘From Below’: Insights From Japan, Uganda, Al-Quds and Ireland
AGEING WITH SMARTPHONES ‘FROM BELOW’: INSIGHTS FROM JAPAN, UGANDA, AL-QUDS AND IRELAND This session examines new ways to theorize the smartphone, based on a comparative study of smartphone use amongst older people in four different fieldsites for a period of 16 months ethnographic fieldwork. Along with gender, age is one of the primary parameters by which societies throughout history have structured and governed themselves (Spencer, 1990). Since …
Making things matter
In this chapter, the authors aim to demonstrate how a trajectory towards making things matter is not simply aspirational but is actually something they can hope to realise and that could drive material culture studies and digital anthropology in the future. They consider how an alternative to impact evaluation can be an integral part of research design through the use of ethnography. The primary product of ethnography is the monograph; no other f…
Making meaningful lives: Tales from an aging Japan by Iza Kavedžija (2019)
Emotion work via digital visual communication: A comparative study between China and Japan
Through the smartphone, the production and circulation of digital visual media have become as costless and accessible as audio and text-based communication. It would be challenging to be a contemporary ethnographer without engaging with digital practices which in Japan and China at least, tend towards being highly visual. Digital visual communication is recognised in literature as an effective and accessible form of communication, with an increas…
Doing Multimodal Anthropology of Ageing with Smartphones: Cases from Italy and Japan
Anthrovision, 9.2 | 2021 1 time, we draw on substantive, analytical aspects of our research findings to illustrate how working in/with multimodal ways and forms was directly connected with the research topic.Linking methodology with epistemology in thinking about how we produce certain kinds of knowledge, is central, we argue, to the intentions and realisation of a critical multimodal ethnographic enquiry, of the kind we've sought to practise and…
Book notes: The Global Smartphone: Beyond a Youth Technology
Bringing Ageing to Life: A Comparative Study of Age Categories
This article offers a comparative ethnographic study of ageing as both category and experience. Drawing on simultaneous 16-month ethnographies conducted as part of the ASSA project, we focus on how ageing is being re-defined in eight contexts around the world, with particular focus on the authors' field sites: rural and urban settings in both Japan and Uganda. Despite being among the world's oldest and youngest populations, respectively, there ar…
Widening the Frame
Nora Wuttke's Hospital Echoes Installation, Lady David Gallery, SOAS, University of London (13 April-2 May 2023 Moreshin Allahyari, dir. 2020. She Who Knows the Unknown: Kabous, the Right Witness and the Left Witness. Virtual Reality/Digital. Nazlı Dinçel, dir. 2019. Instructions on How to Make a Film. 16 mm
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Technology Use by Older Adults (3 works) · Ageing (2 works)