Philipp Budka is a sociocultural anthropologist interested in media, technologies, infrastructures, activism, (visual) communication, internet histories & ethnography.
In 2000, one of Canada's leading Aboriginal community networks, K-Net, on the verge of e... more In 2000, one of Canada's leading Aboriginal community networks, K-Net, on the verge of expanding into broadband services (as part of Industry Canada's Smart Communities project), introduced MyKnet.org, a system of personal homepages intended for remote First Nations users in ...
Austrian studies in social anthropology : Online-Journal des Vereins der Absolventinnen und Absolventen des Instituts für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie, Dec 1, 2008
Theorising Media and Conflict brings together anthropologists as well as media and communication ... more Theorising Media and Conflict brings together anthropologists as well as media and communication scholars to collectively address the elusive and complex relationship between media and conflict. Through epistemological and methodological reflections and the analyses of various case studies from around the globe, this volume provides evidence for the co-constitutiveness of media and conflict and contributes to their consolidation as a distinct area of scholarship. Practitioners, policymakers, students and scholars who wish to understand the lived realities and dynamics of contemporary conflicts will find this book invaluable.
The design and implementation of a social siences core curriculum implies an approach across disc... more The design and implementation of a social siences core curriculum implies an approach across disciplines and provides a didactical challenge. A blended learning model adapted to the specific requirements is designed to improve the learning situation in mass lectures, encourage self-study processes, and to build up generic competences. The model consists of a hypermedia content pool and virtually assisted exercises. Requirements and challenges of the e-learning project will be discussed in this paper.
The design and implementation of a social siences core curriculum implies an approach across disc... more The design and implementation of a social siences core curriculum implies an approach across disciplines and provides a didactical challenge. A blended learning model adapted to the specific requirements is designed to improve the learning situation in mass lectures, encourage self-study processes, and to build up generic competences. The model consists of a hypermedia content pool and virtually assisted exercises. Requirements and challenges of the e-learning project will be discussed in this paper.
This is a short position paper that sets out to briefly discuss how indigenous audio-visual media... more This is a short position paper that sets out to briefly discuss how indigenous audio-visual media production and broadcasting initiatives haven been developed and maintained in Canada. I am concentrating on television which still is the world's dominant audio-visual communication medium. What are the specifics of indigenous media (production) and related practices and processes? And what does the future hold for indigenous media projects? Due to limited time at hand, I am only able to open this field of research by presenting two case studies: the national Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) (e.g., Hafsteinsson 2013, Roth 2005) and Wawatay (e.g., Budka 2009, Minore & Hill 1990), a regional communication society in Northern Ontario.
In 2000, one of Canada's leading Aboriginal community networks, K-Net, on the verge of e... more In 2000, one of Canada's leading Aboriginal community networks, K-Net, on the verge of expanding into broadband services (as part of Industry Canada's Smart Communities project), introduced MyKnet.org, a system of personal homepages intended for remote First Nations users in ...
Austrian studies in social anthropology : Online-Journal des Vereins der Absolventinnen und Absolventen des Instituts für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie, Dec 1, 2008
Theorising Media and Conflict brings together anthropologists as well as media and communication ... more Theorising Media and Conflict brings together anthropologists as well as media and communication scholars to collectively address the elusive and complex relationship between media and conflict. Through epistemological and methodological reflections and the analyses of various case studies from around the globe, this volume provides evidence for the co-constitutiveness of media and conflict and contributes to their consolidation as a distinct area of scholarship. Practitioners, policymakers, students and scholars who wish to understand the lived realities and dynamics of contemporary conflicts will find this book invaluable.
The design and implementation of a social siences core curriculum implies an approach across disc... more The design and implementation of a social siences core curriculum implies an approach across disciplines and provides a didactical challenge. A blended learning model adapted to the specific requirements is designed to improve the learning situation in mass lectures, encourage self-study processes, and to build up generic competences. The model consists of a hypermedia content pool and virtually assisted exercises. Requirements and challenges of the e-learning project will be discussed in this paper.
The design and implementation of a social siences core curriculum implies an approach across disc... more The design and implementation of a social siences core curriculum implies an approach across disciplines and provides a didactical challenge. A blended learning model adapted to the specific requirements is designed to improve the learning situation in mass lectures, encourage self-study processes, and to build up generic competences. The model consists of a hypermedia content pool and virtually assisted exercises. Requirements and challenges of the e-learning project will be discussed in this paper.
This is a short position paper that sets out to briefly discuss how indigenous audio-visual media... more This is a short position paper that sets out to briefly discuss how indigenous audio-visual media production and broadcasting initiatives haven been developed and maintained in Canada. I am concentrating on television which still is the world's dominant audio-visual communication medium. What are the specifics of indigenous media (production) and related practices and processes? And what does the future hold for indigenous media projects? Due to limited time at hand, I am only able to open this field of research by presenting two case studies: the national Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) (e.g., Hafsteinsson 2013, Roth 2005) and Wawatay (e.g., Budka 2009, Minore & Hill 1990), a regional communication society in Northern Ontario.
In a recent survey of the interdisciplinary literature on media and conflict, Schoemaker and Stre... more In a recent survey of the interdisciplinary literature on media and conflict, Schoemaker and Stremlau (2014) found that most existing studies display Western-centric biases, normative assumptions and unsubstantiated claims about the impact of media in conflict situations. With their ethnographic methods and ground-up theorising, anthropologists are therefore well placed to make a strong contribution to the advancement of this area of scholarship. Although a growing number of anthropologists have studied media in conflict and post-conflict contexts – working on diverse topics such as media representations, cyberwar, internet activism, social protest, video-making, or radio dramas – so far they have done so in relative isolation from one another. The result is a fragmentation of the field and a dissipation of efforts. The aim of this workshop is to remedy this situation by bringing together media anthropologists and other media and communication scholars working on the complex relationship between media and conflict.
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The aim of this workshop is to remedy this situation by bringing together media anthropologists and other media and communication scholars working on the complex relationship between media and conflict.