Paper short abstract

The proposed study intends to analyze the daily practices of young Turkish students in its connection with values, feelings and dreams by using a collaborative audio visual methodology with an intention to deconstruct the symbolic and hidden power relations.

Paper long abstract

The proposed study intends look into to the experience of young Turkish university students’ social media usage in relation to everyday life in the context of memory and identity during the pandemic by using a collaborative approach, that of which participants answer research questions by documenting their everyday life offline and online. Throughout the research my aim was not only to gain perspective on the behaviors of young university students on social media

the behaviors of young university students on social media but to explore the memory of discursive and non-discursive layers while exploring the interplay between visual culture and experimental film to question the notion of “otherness” and “distance” (Russell, 1999).Thus I used a broad methodological approach in the research and the accompanying collaborative film.

In this film and research, I analyze the daily practices of young Turkish students in its connection with values, feelings and dreams by using an audio visual methodology with an intention to deconstruct the symbolic and hidden power relations. Additionally, I will ask how may visual anthropological means of inquiry capture and enter into dialogue with people’s own ways of communicating, interpreting, keeping record of, and establishing their lives through audio-visual on social media.

Paper short abstract

This film addresses the co-existence of enset, land and people as bio-culturally collaborative products. This film portrays the role of a traditional farmer and family members’ attention towards managing enset garden, a hope to survive for food and fodder.

Paper long abstract

This film is a new initiative under cultural ecology. It focuses on Enset ventricosum, 'the cultural landscape’ and the people of Gamo highland, Ethiopia, as ‘part of the environment'. This film addresses the co-existence of enset, land and people as bio-culturally collaborative products. Further, this film depicts the role of a traditional farmer and family members’ attention towards traditional knowledge in maintaining the enset garden. Their contribution encompasses food production and protecting land and animal feed for generations. Enset is grown and maintained which serves as a symbol of status in society. Both male and female landraces provide the necessities of life. Matured male species of enset are preferred in food preparation while female species are mostly ornamental to the garden. The corm, stem sheaths are used in preparing Kocho regarded as traditional bread (fermented form) and Bulla (decanted form) from male species. Amicho is blended food prepared from female species (often the corm is small along with cabbage, potato, or beans etc) which is occasionally consumed.

Paper short abstract

Through this paper, the researcher will discuss fictional works done in popular media/mass media to understand and navigate how human interaction, relations, and communication may take place through technology in near future.

Paper long abstract

As human beings, it is not uncommon to wonder or speculate about how the future will be. Whether the increasing climate change will bring the extinction of the world, or whether they will leave the earth and colonize a new planet in the solar system. These kinds of scenarios are often seen in science fiction works. Regardless of these scenarios, one thing that will remain the same is that human beings are social beings. The species' survival, the ideas developed, etc. depend on the relations humans form as social beings and how these relations are maintained.

Throughout history, it can be seen that the mode of human interaction and communication has changed drastically. Previously, when one message took days to be delivered through letters, now takes just a few seconds to be delivered via an SMS or phone call. Technological advances have made life convenient in terms of getting things done in a shorter period of time and have also changed how people interact. The interest of researchers has also increased in relationships and communications built on the technological ground, moving from the real world to the virtual world and vice versa. Technology is no longer something impersonal, rather it has become an important element that can reflect a person and his individuality.

Therefore, through this paper, the researcher will discuss fictional works done in popular media/mass media to understand and navigate how human interaction, relations, and communication may take place through technology in near future.