Natalie M Underberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 146756 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Natalie M Underberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Natalie M |
| FAMILY NAME | Underberg |
| SIGNATURE | UNDERBERG N M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Central Florida |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Digital Ethnography: Anthropology, Narrative, and New Media
Digital ethnography can be understood as a method for representing real-life cultures through storytelling in digital media. Enabling audiences to go beyond absorbing facts, computer-based storytelling allows for immersion in the experience of another culture. A guide for anyone in the social sciences who seeks to enrich ethnographic techniques, Digital Ethnography offers a groundbreaking approach that utilizes interactive components to simulate …
Exploring Peruvian Culture through Multimedia Ethnography
The projects discussed in this article, Nicario Jiménez's website on Folkvine.org and the PeruVine/PeruDigital/PeruQuechua project, explore new ways to tell stories using features of digital environments such as immersion and imitation. In this article we discuss how the design and navigation structure of these websites tries to present simultaneously the context for understanding stories as well as the experiential dimension of ethnography and e…
Multisensory Immersion in Virtual Spaces: PeruVine/PeruDigital
The Turkey Maiden Educational Computer Game
An educational computer game project underway in the Digital Media department of the University of Central Florida is the subject of this article. It is based on a folktale called The Turkey Maiden, collected in Ybor City, Florida, in the 1930s. A game mod (user-created addition and modification to an existing commercial off-the-shelf computer game) has been created that integrates specific tasks the heroine must successfully complete in order to…
Folkvine.org: Ethnographic Storytelling in Folk Art Web Design
This article examines an innovative website documentary project about folk art called Folkvine.org, from the perspective of ethnographic storytelling. Folkvine.org explores ways to create in the navigation structure of the site itself an enactment of the ethnographic process, and the stories of various cultures. In this article we consider the ways in which the project employs contemporary techniques for effective ethnographic storytelling such a…
Virtual and Reciprocal Ethnography on the Internet: The East Mims Oral History Project Website
This article examines a problem in the design of folklore websites: in what ways can technology be used to build into the documentation process itself an ethnographic guide to the materials that incorporates the folkgroup's own understanding of those materials, and how they can be best presented to the public? In examining this problem, the article focuses on the potential of digital media for addressing two concerns of contemporary folkloristics…
Sor Juana's Villancicos: Context, Gender, and Genre
INTRODUCTION Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, the famous seventeenth-century Mexican nun and writer, successfully constructed and performed her identity as a creole woman in Colonial-era New Spain through her use of the villancico (a type of Spanish lyric, similar to other kinds of European folksongs). This was possible because the generic conventions, social attitudes, and performance context of this form provided Sor Juana with the optimal cover for …
New Old-Fashioned Ways: Holidays and Popular Culture
Virtual and Reciprocal Ethnography on the Internet: The East Mims Oral History Project Website
This article examines a problem in the design of folklore websites: in what ways can technology be used to build into the documentation process itself an ethnographic guide to the materials that incorporates the folkgroup's own understanding of those materials, and how they can be best presented to the public? In examining this problem, the article focuses on the potential of digital media for addressing two concerns of contemporary folkloristics…
Exploring Peruvian Culture through Multimedia Ethnography
The projects discussed in this article, Nicario Jiménez's website on Folkvine.org and the PeruVine/PeruDigital/PeruQuechua project, explore new ways to tell stories using features of digital environments such as immersion and imitation. In this article we discuss how the design and navigation structure of these websites tries to present simultaneously the context for understanding stories as well as the experiential dimension of ethnography and e…
Folkvine.org: Ethnographic Storytelling in Folk Art Web Design
This article examines an innovative website documentary project about folk art called Folkvine.org, from the perspective of ethnographic storytelling. Folkvine.org explores ways to create in the navigation structure of the site itself an enactment of the ethnographic process, and the stories of various cultures. In this article we consider the ways in which the project employs contemporary techniques for effective ethnographic storytelling such a…
The Turkey Maiden Educational Computer Game
An educational computer game project underway in the Digital Media department of the University of Central Florida is the subject of this article. It is based on a folktale called The Turkey Maiden, collected in Ybor City, Florida, in the 1930s. A game mod (user-created addition and modification to an existing commercial off-the-shelf computer game) has been created that integrates specific tasks the heroine must successfully complete in order to…
Sor Juana's Villancicos: Context, Gender, and Genre
INTRODUCTION Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, the famous seventeenth-century Mexican nun and writer, successfully constructed and performed her identity as a creole woman in Colonial-era New Spain through her use of the villancico (a type of Spanish lyric, similar to other kinds of European folksongs). This was possible because the generic conventions, social attitudes, and performance context of this form provided Sor Juana with the optimal cover for …
New Old-Fashioned Ways: Holidays and Popular Culture
Sor Juana's Villancicos: Context, Gender, and Genre
INTRODUCTION Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, the famous seventeenth-century Mexican nun and writer, successfully constructed and performed her identity as a creole woman in Colonial-era New Spain through her use of the villancico (a type of Spanish lyric, similar to other kinds of European folksongs). This was possible because the generic conventions, social attitudes, and performance context of this form provided Sor Juana with the optimal cover for …
Virtual and Reciprocal Ethnography on the Internet: The East Mims Oral History Project Website
This article examines a problem in the design of folklore websites: in what ways can technology be used to build into the documentation process itself an ethnographic guide to the materials that incorporates the folkgroup's own understanding of those materials, and how they can be best presented to the public? In examining this problem, the article focuses on the potential of digital media for addressing two concerns of contemporary folkloristics…
Folkvine.org: Ethnographic Storytelling in Folk Art Web Design
This article examines an innovative website documentary project about folk art called Folkvine.org, from the perspective of ethnographic storytelling. Folkvine.org explores ways to create in the navigation structure of the site itself an enactment of the ethnographic process, and the stories of various cultures. In this article we consider the ways in which the project employs contemporary techniques for effective ethnographic storytelling such a…
The Turkey Maiden Educational Computer Game
An educational computer game project underway in the Digital Media department of the University of Central Florida is the subject of this article. It is based on a folktale called The Turkey Maiden, collected in Ybor City, Florida, in the 1930s. A game mod (user-created addition and modification to an existing commercial off-the-shelf computer game) has been created that integrates specific tasks the heroine must successfully complete in order to…
Multisensory Immersion in Virtual Spaces: PeruVine/PeruDigital
Digital Ethnography: Anthropology, Narrative, and New Media
Digital ethnography can be understood as a method for representing real-life cultures through storytelling in digital media. Enabling audiences to go beyond absorbing facts, computer-based storytelling allows for immersion in the experience of another culture. A guide for anyone in the social sciences who seeks to enrich ethnographic techniques, Digital Ethnography offers a groundbreaking approach that utilizes interactive components to simulate …
Exploring Peruvian Culture through Multimedia Ethnography
The projects discussed in this article, Nicario Jiménez's website on Folkvine.org and the PeruVine/PeruDigital/PeruQuechua project, explore new ways to tell stories using features of digital environments such as immersion and imitation. In this article we discuss how the design and navigation structure of these websites tries to present simultaneously the context for understanding stories as well as the experiential dimension of ethnography and e…
Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Ethnography (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Digital Games and Media (3 works) · History (3 works)