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A STRANGER HERE MYSELF
AUTO-ETHNOGRAPHY | EDUCATION | JOURNALISM | TRANSMEDIA DIGITAL PUBLISHING
in POST-COVID-19 CHINA [A WORK IN PROGRESS]
个性化民族志 | 教育 | 新闻 | COVID-19 后中国的跨媒体数字出版 [正在进行中]
A FOREIGN EFL EDUCATION PROFESSIONAL'S TRANS-MEDIA CULTURAL STORY OF LIVED EXPERIENCE IN CHINA
FROM XINJIANG [XUAR] TO SHANGHAI & BEYOND
外国英语教育专家对中国生活经历的跨媒体视角从新疆 [XUAR] 到上海及其他地区
Autoethnography is "an approach to research and writing that seeks to describe and systematically analyze personal experience in order to understand cultural experience. This approach challenges canonical ways of doing research and representing others and treats research as a political, socially-just and socially-conscious act. A researcher uses tenets of autobiography and ethnography to do and write autoethnography. Thus, as a method, autoethnography is both process and product."
(Ellis, Adams & Bochner, 2011)
1.0 INTRODUCTION: "千里之行，始于足下" (Lao Zi)
1.1 "SELF-INTRODUCTION": LONGITUDINAL TRANSMEDIA CRITICAL REFLECTION ON 10+ YEARS OF EFL PROFESSIONAL PEDAGOGIC PRACTICE IN CHINA
1.1.1 "EYE SEE | i AM" - SELF-INTRO IN CRITICALLY REFLECTIVE SLIDESHOW OF SMARTPHONE PHOTOGRAPHY IN PRE-COVID JING AN, SHANGHAI
(left click on image for descriptive reflection / video / weblinks)
1.1.2 "BEING IN TIME (GN) 1": CRITICALLY REFLECTIVE NARRATIVIZED GRAPHIC NOVEL FORMATTED DURING COVID-19 LOCKDOWN
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NARRATIVIZED SLIDER GALLERY OF SMARTPHONE PHOTOGRAPHY: a chronological assembly of smartphone photos of Jing An, Shanghai circa 2017-19, With comments, reflection and linked additional content.
GRAPHIC NOVEL AS SLIDER GALLERY: Experimental autoethnographic graphic novel [GN] with page by page comments, reflection and linked additional content. Original PDF version was completed during Covid-19 lockdown, circa 2021-23.
1.2 TRANSMEDIA AUTOETHNOGRAPHY IN MEDIA RES: [AUTO-]ETHNOGRAPHIC METHODOLOGIES IN CHINESE EFL INTER-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION [IC] COURSE DESIGN - ANALYTICAL CASE STUDY AND CRITICAL REFLECTION FORTHCOMING PRE-PRINT
(updates pending: watch this space)
2.0 LONGITUDINAL TRANSMEDIA AUTOETHNOGRAPHY
2.1 "BEING IN TIME": PLACE MEMORY & PEDAGOGY - FROM XINJIANG [XUAR] TO SHANGHAI: IDENTITY (RE-) CONSTRUCTION DURING COVID-19 LOCKDOWN IN CHINA
(left click on video and/or blog links for descriptive reflection)
2024/01/10: As I turn 55, I find myself at peaceful solace in these reflective, solitary moments and start the reflection period musing over my life and career in China, on what my "cultural story" may offer as auto-ethnography (especially given the recent attention on auto-ethnographic methodologies within Chinese EFL: Busteed, 2022: Huang, 2022; Kulich, et.al 2022). An associative journey (odyssey?) then both analytically and evocatively from here: using sequenced, scaffolded dissemination means to aesthetically signpost the results of a mode of inquiry that, to me, methodologizes Confucian "self-cultivation". With Confucian thought as the conceptual prism, participant-observation remains a construct-valid methodological template for inquiry, such as is also adapted specific to current Western-derived autoethnography.
A Longitudinal transmedia project in media res...
2022/10/03: "Break of Day", "Gallipoli" and ANZAC ideology in the cinema of disability. Overland.
2023/02/22: "Genocide Games": Deconstructing "Forced Labor in Xinjiang" Discourse During the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics (Amended). Draft Paper. Academia.edu
2.2 RECONCEPTUALIZING AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC FILM
2.2.1 "IDENTITY CONSTRUCT DIALECTICS": LIVED EXPERIENCE AS EVOCATIVE AUTO-ETHNOGRAPHIC MULTIMEDIA VIDEOGRAPHIC SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT-CREATION
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2.2.1(a) LATEST DIARY FILM
2.2.1(b) LATEST EXTENDED FEATURE
2.2.1(c) LATEST MUSIC VIDEO MASHUP
DIARY FILMS PLAYLIST: a chronological anthology of short autoethnographic re-conceptualizations of the diary film format, Evocative interpretivism perhaps. Travelogue-based but heavily montaged for aesthetic and discursive purposes. Sporadically updated as pieces to potentially draw on for future anthologizing.
FEATURE FILM ROUGH-CUT: An artifact - incomplete record of the last time I saw my father alive and the two of us re-visited his former hometown of Coober Pedy, South Australia. An opal mining town, I spent my childhood there and much reflection on the film of "Being in Time" (above) is inspired by such place memories.
2.2.1(d) COVID-19 LOCKDOWN FILMS
2.2.1(e) LATEST 420 JOURNAL FILM
AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC MUSIC VIDEO MASHUPS: experimental AV montages of original video edited with found object media overlays and set to personal favorite song selections. Intended as an adjunct to diary films, evocative - exploring the aesthetic potential of autoethnography as once reflected in avant-garde work.
2.2.1(f) AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC SHORT FICTION
THE LOCKDOWN FILMS: a series of short films and experimental montages produced and/or post-produced during China's Covid-19 lockdown period. The films were originally intended for anthologizing and the final version of 14 films was a precursor to the final "Being in Time" concept (home) movie. Formally freer than many later works.
ABORTED JOURNAL?: 420 journal films is a haphazard assembly of found footage edits experimenting with abstract imagery and text-based narration. In these films, I play with effects with less deliberation than finalized works and thus these remain works perhaps unfinished or in need of updating. Presented for archival interest.
EXPERIMENTAL AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC SHORT FILMS:: experimental AV montages of original video edited with found object media overlays - similar style but exploring more aesthetic options at the edge of the ethnographer / auteur dialectic that affected Mekas, Brakhage, Anger and the avant-garde "home movie" aesthetic.
NOW INTEGRATING DIGITAL (SELF-)PUBLISHING
#ISBN REGISTERED AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC TRANSMEDIA DIGITAL PUBLISHING: IN MEDIA RES DIGITAL DOCUMENTATION ARCHIVE
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