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Media University film crew on set in Northeast China
At the beginning of May, a film crew of representatives from Media University Berlin and Cologne traveled to DōngGăng to shoot a video about the (…)
Social Media Activism and Algorithmic Communities: Release of new VMA journal
January 4, 2022
The sixth issue of the Journal of Visual and Media Anthropology presents several articles and short films that explore the themes of social media activism and desires conveyed through digital platforms.
The new edition presented special challenges for the participating researchers and students of the M.A. Visual and Media Anthropology program, as two of the films intended for publication were censored. One film was censored for political reasons and taken down by the government of the filmmaker’s home country before it could be released. Another was flagged and taken down by Youtube’s algorithm for suspected disinformation.
Other films included in this issue dealt with, among other things, racialized experiences of people in the United States and the slogan “white silence is violence“, as well as the paradox that white activists may be complicit in the very systems they actually want to distance themselves from with anti-racist language. The film “Forbidden Desires” explores the virtual world of the computer game The Sims and the extent to which it can serve as a platform for the expression of desires that are suppressed in the physical world.
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