Patricia G. Lange
Patricia G. Lange is an Anthropologist studying digital media. She is an Associate Professor of Critical Studies (undergraduate program), and Visual & Critical Studies (graduate program) at California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco. Recognized as an expert in studies of new media and...
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Patricia G. Lange is an Anthropologist studying digital media. She is an Associate Professor of Critical Studies (undergraduate program), and Visual & Critical Studies (graduate program) at California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco. Recognized as an expert in studies of new media and YouTube, her work focuses on technical identity performance and use of video to creatively express the self. Her new book is called Kids on YouTube: Technical Identities and Digital Literacies (Routledge, 2014), which draws on a two-year, deeply engaged ethnographic project on YouTube and video bloggers to explore how video is used in informal learning environments. She also released her ethnographic film, Hey Watch This! Sharing the Self Through Media (2013), which was screened in Paris at Ethnografilm, an international film festival showcasing films that visually depict social worlds. Hey Watch This! provides a unique diachronic look at the rise and fall of YouTube as a social media site, and offers a poignant look at how YouTubers envision their digital legacies. In addition to contributing to some of the earliest scholarly volumes on YouTube, she co-authored two books: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media (MIT Press, 2010), and Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project (MIT Press, 2009). At CCA, she teaches courses in anthropology of technology; digital cultures; new media and civic engagement; space, place and time; and ethnography for design. Prior to joining CCA, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California.Henry Jenkins interviewed Lange about her book Kids on YouTube in a four part series that starts here: http://henryjenkins.org/2014/03/kids-on-youtube-an-interview-with-patricia-lange-part-one.htmlInformation about reviews for Kids on YouTube may be found on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kidsonyoutubelange/More information may be found on her websites: https://www.cca.edu/academics/faculty/plange and patriciaglange.org.
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