Accepted Contribution:

Visualising Everest: Imaginations, Infrastructures and Ecomedia  
Jolynna Sinanan (University of Manchester)

Contribution short abstract:

In what ways can visual economies of Everest contribute to furthering our consideration of ecomedia?

Contribution long abstract:

Dr Jolynna Sinanan is a Lecturer in Digital Anthropology in the Department of Social Anthropology and the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in Trinidad, Nepal, Australia and Cambodia and has published widely on digital and data practices, digital visual communication, intergenerational mobilities, work and gender. Her books include Social Media in Trinidad (2017, UCL Press), Visualising Facebook (with D. Miller 2017, UCL Press) and Digital Media Practices in Households (with L. Hjorth et al. 2021, Amsterdam University Press). Jolynna's current research focuses on mobile media and mobile livelihoods in the Everest tourism industry.

Partner Event E01
University of Manchester: Entanglements: Ethnographic Ecomedia at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology
  Session 1 Tuesday 7 March, 2023, -