John Farnsworth
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674162 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Farnsworth |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Farnsworth |
| SIGNATURE | FARNSWORTH J |
| AFFILIATIONS | New Zealand Broadcasting School |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0973-2825 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Tensions and Symmetries in the Ethnographic Unconscious: Lacan, Rain of the Children, Cross-Cultural Trauma
This paper is situated at the intersection of a number of tensions: the registers of psyche and culture, psychoanalysis and anthropology, colonial and post-colonial, mediation and re-representation. Drawing on Vincent Ward’s Rain of the Children (2008), it proposes a move from a perspective inflected through western epistemes articulated by psychoanalysts such as Lacan to one situated within non-western perspectives. Such perspectives have recent…
Media, Network(s) and
Networks have been described as one of the most significant features of the modern world. So central and pervasive are they that Manuel Castells (2009), for instance, has dubbed contemporary society the “network society.” Clearly, media are central to a network society. Yet this raises the question of which kinds of media? Traditionally, they have been broadcast or electronic media. However, these forms have been overtaken by the rise of digital …
Celebrity, infamy, poker
Social Exclusion and Poverty: Translating Social Capital into Accessible Resources
This article investigates the dynamic multi‐dimensional processes through which the poor become excluded from social participation. Drawing on social capital literature, it traces how bridging and bonding capital do not always translate into expected levels of social participation. It does so by detailing research findings from low income focus groups undertaken in Dunedin, New Zealand. These describe the experiences of group members in attemptin…
The ethnography of new media worlds? Following the case of global poker
This article relates the current transformation of ethnographic practice to the emergence of new media technologies. It contrasts multi-sited ethnography with actor network theory’s method of following the construction of new media worlds through chains of mediators. The authors exemplify this through the extraordinary emergence of global poker and its shifting constitution across the entire spectrum of traditional and new media technologies. The…
Analysing group dynamics within the focus group
Focus groups are routinely used as a research tool in a wide variety of settings. Based on recent experience with poverty research, we argue this method needs to be problematized and further rethought. The article draws on focus group studies conducted over seven years to argue that the method routinely excludes a key area of group interaction: group dynamics. Our work underlines how these are central to shaping group participation as well as the…
Assembling Histories: J. G. A. Pocock, Aotearoa/New Zealand and the British World
J. G. A. Pocock’s work has made major contributions to the two fields of history and political science. In this article, we investigate the significance of his contributions to a wider field of social science and, in particular, to the discipline of sociology. Pocock’s attention to the question of sovereignty and its constant reconfiguration throughout the British world is brought together with the concerns of authors writing in an actor network …
Media, Network(s) and
Networks have been described as one of the most significant features of the modern world. So central and pervasive are they that Manuel Castells (2000), for instance, has dubbed contemporary society the “network society.” More than that, a network society is one in which the media play a preeminent role because of their capacity to distribute and disperse information, and their facility in traversing, and even reconfiguring, space and time zones.…
Hybrid genres: Fieldwork, detection and the method of Bruno Latour
This article explores tensions in the study of innovation, the practice of fieldwork and the narratives these produce, particularly as represented in the work of Latour. It argues that Latour's ethnographic studies of science and technology parody a variety of sociological and literary genres, particularly detective fiction, and that he uses this literary device as a way of pinpointing unexpected links between fictional and sociological modes of …
New Zealand advertising agencies: Professionalisation and cultural production
(1996). New Zealand advertising agencies: Professionalisation and cultural production. Continuum: Vol. 10, Aotearoa/New Zealand: A New Mediascape, pp. 136-151
Analysing group dynamics within the focus group
Focus groups are routinely used as a research tool in a wide variety of settings. Based on recent experience with poverty research, we argue this method needs to be problematized and further rethought. The article draws on focus group studies conducted over seven years to argue that the method routinely excludes a key area of group interaction: group dynamics. Our work underlines how these are central to shaping group participation as well as the…
The ethnography of new media worlds? Following the case of global poker
This article relates the current transformation of ethnographic practice to the emergence of new media technologies. It contrasts multi-sited ethnography with actor network theory’s method of following the construction of new media worlds through chains of mediators. The authors exemplify this through the extraordinary emergence of global poker and its shifting constitution across the entire spectrum of traditional and new media technologies. The…
Social Exclusion and Poverty: Translating Social Capital into Accessible Resources
This article investigates the dynamic multi‐dimensional processes through which the poor become excluded from social participation. Drawing on social capital literature, it traces how bridging and bonding capital do not always translate into expected levels of social participation. It does so by detailing research findings from low income focus groups undertaken in Dunedin, New Zealand. These describe the experiences of group members in attemptin…
Hybrid genres: Fieldwork, detection and the method of Bruno Latour
This article explores tensions in the study of innovation, the practice of fieldwork and the narratives these produce, particularly as represented in the work of Latour. It argues that Latour's ethnographic studies of science and technology parody a variety of sociological and literary genres, particularly detective fiction, and that he uses this literary device as a way of pinpointing unexpected links between fictional and sociological modes of …
New Zealand advertising agencies: Professionalisation and cultural production
(1996). New Zealand advertising agencies: Professionalisation and cultural production. Continuum: Vol. 10, Aotearoa/New Zealand: A New Mediascape, pp. 136-151
Hybrid genres: Fieldwork, detection and the method of Bruno Latour
This article explores tensions in the study of innovation, the practice of fieldwork and the narratives these produce, particularly as represented in the work of Latour. It argues that Latour's ethnographic studies of science and technology parody a variety of sociological and literary genres, particularly detective fiction, and that he uses this literary device as a way of pinpointing unexpected links between fictional and sociological modes of …
Media, Network(s) and
Networks have been described as one of the most significant features of the modern world. So central and pervasive are they that Manuel Castells (2000), for instance, has dubbed contemporary society the “network society.” More than that, a network society is one in which the media play a preeminent role because of their capacity to distribute and disperse information, and their facility in traversing, and even reconfiguring, space and time zones.…
Assembling Histories: J. G. A. Pocock, Aotearoa/New Zealand and the British World
J. G. A. Pocock’s work has made major contributions to the two fields of history and political science. In this article, we investigate the significance of his contributions to a wider field of social science and, in particular, to the discipline of sociology. Pocock’s attention to the question of sovereignty and its constant reconfiguration throughout the British world is brought together with the concerns of authors writing in an actor network …
The ethnography of new media worlds? Following the case of global poker
This article relates the current transformation of ethnographic practice to the emergence of new media technologies. It contrasts multi-sited ethnography with actor network theory’s method of following the construction of new media worlds through chains of mediators. The authors exemplify this through the extraordinary emergence of global poker and its shifting constitution across the entire spectrum of traditional and new media technologies. The…
Analysing group dynamics within the focus group
Focus groups are routinely used as a research tool in a wide variety of settings. Based on recent experience with poverty research, we argue this method needs to be problematized and further rethought. The article draws on focus group studies conducted over seven years to argue that the method routinely excludes a key area of group interaction: group dynamics. Our work underlines how these are central to shaping group participation as well as the…
Social Exclusion and Poverty: Translating Social Capital into Accessible Resources
This article investigates the dynamic multi‐dimensional processes through which the poor become excluded from social participation. Drawing on social capital literature, it traces how bridging and bonding capital do not always translate into expected levels of social participation. It does so by detailing research findings from low income focus groups undertaken in Dunedin, New Zealand. These describe the experiences of group members in attemptin…
Celebrity, infamy, poker
Media, Network(s) and
Networks have been described as one of the most significant features of the modern world. So central and pervasive are they that Manuel Castells (2009), for instance, has dubbed contemporary society the “network society.” Clearly, media are central to a network society. Yet this raises the question of which kinds of media? Traditionally, they have been broadcast or electronic media. However, these forms have been overtaken by the rise of digital …
Tensions and Symmetries in the Ethnographic Unconscious: Lacan, Rain of the Children, Cross-Cultural Trauma
This paper is situated at the intersection of a number of tensions: the registers of psyche and culture, psychoanalysis and anthropology, colonial and post-colonial, mediation and re-representation. Drawing on Vincent Ward’s Rain of the Children (2008), it proposes a move from a perspective inflected through western epistemes articulated by psychoanalysts such as Lacan to one situated within non-western perspectives. Such perspectives have recent…
Sociology (9 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Ethnography (3 works)