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“Anything can happen on a smartphone...” Mutual explorations of digitalization and social transformation in Morocco’s High Atlas through On/Offine Theatre Ethnography.

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dc.creatorter Laan, Nina
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-18T12:14:31Z
dc.date.available2023-09-18T12:14:31Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractThis paper discusses the use of (online) theatre as an ethnographic research tool in an existing collaborative study on (digital) media use and social transformation in a Moroccan village situated in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco. Due to the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic to the ongoing fieldwork there, the project team sought a way to re-establish a regular feedback loop with the village community in a non-physical way. As a solution, the project team, together with the local partners, decided to bring in a theatre maker to conduct online theatre workshops, with the aim to bring the project back to life in a meaningful way and to generate data for the overall goal of the project: to explore and develop socio-technical collabora- tion infrastructures in Morocco. This working paper describes the process, motivations, design, and outcomes of the project, as well as the controversies, opportunities, and struggles that arose during the theatre work. It also reflects on the added value and objections of such a collaboration between an academic and an artistic discipline and describes the process of ‘negotiating con- nection’ between researchers and research partners amidst the pandemic. I argue that, despite the necessary challenges, using theatre as a methodological tool for ethnographic research, can, through cooperation, allow researchers to better understand cultural practices, social relations, and power dynamics within a marginalized community.en
dc.identifier.doidoi.org/10.25819/ubsi/10306
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/20045
dc.identifier.issnissn:2567–2517
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/21258
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherUniversität Siegen
dc.publisher.placeSiegen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectMutual explorationsen
dc.subjectdigitalizationen
dc.subjectsocial transformationen
dc.subjectMoroccoen
dc.subjectHigh Atlasen
dc.subjectOn/Offineen
dc.subjectTheatreen
dc.subjectEthnographyen
dc.subject.ddcddc:700
dc.title“Anything can happen on a smartphone...” Mutual explorations of digitalization and social transformation in Morocco’s High Atlas through On/Offine Theatre Ethnography.en
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dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.academicbookseriesMedien der Kooperation
local.coverpage2023-09-18T14:26:11
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://dspace.ub.uni-siegen.de/handle/ubsi/2499
local.source.volume29

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