Paraethnographic Film: Virtual Enactment and Collaboration inOur Digital Selves
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| ANO | Não informado |
| TIPO | Artigo |
| DOI | 10.1111/var.12225 |
| ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
Resumo
The filmOur Digital Selves: My Avatar Is Me(Bernhard Drax, director: 74m, 2018,https://youtu.be/GQw02-me0W4) chronicles the experiences and insights of disabled persons in the virtual world Second Life. In this article, I focus on the making of the film through collaboration between researchers, filmmakers, and community. By discussing techniques of what I termvirtual enactment, I explore howOur Digital Selvesconstitutesparaethnographic filmcreated through a triple collaboration between community members, filmmakers, and ethnographers. This concept can contribute to visual anthropology as a set of representational and analytical techniques responsive to emergent cultures and communities.