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Tembusu College Fellow’s Tea
Dr. Jolynna Sinanan
6pm, Tuesday
28th February 2012
Student Common Lounge,
Level 1, Residential Block
Refreshments will be served.
Only 30 seats available!
Please register at dev-tembusu-nus.pantheonsite.io
Jolynna Sinanan is currently involved with “The Uses of Webcam”, a joint project between the Anthropology department of University College London and the School of Media and Communication at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). She has recently completed ethnographic-based fieldwork in Trinidad under the supervision of Professor Daniel Miller (who has previously written several books on digital media and material culture in Trinidad). The aim of the study is to provide the first in-depth, systematic research on webcams and to understand the extent of their use in transnational and other relationships. Specifically the study is investigating the varying experiences of using webcam, advantages and disadvantages of webcam for its users, the different kinds of relationships in which webcams are used (e.g. parent-child, grandparents-grandchildren, business and commercial) and the likely consequences of this technology for transnational and other relationships in the future.
Prior to this project, Jolynna had a short career in Melbourne as comedic perfomer in stand-up. Jolynna has recently completed a PhD in Development Studies at the University of Melbourne. Her thesis examined the nature of engagement with development by ‘beneficiaries’, drawing on different case studies that centred on microfinance and the trafficking of women in Cambodia.
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