[chisigmail] IDG Seminar: Photo Practices and Family Values in Chinese Households

[Daryl Ku]

(Apologies for cross posting)

You are cordially invited to an IDG Seminar.


PRESENTER:      Connor Graham, Interaction Design Group, Department of  
Information Systems, University of Melbourne

TITLE:          Photo Practices and Family Values in Chinese Households

VENUE:          University of Melbourne, IDEA Lab, Level 4, 111 Barry  
Street, Carlton

DATE and TIME:  Friday 24 Apr 2009, 3.45 - 4.30 pm


ABSTRACT:
This talk considers studies of photography by five families in Sichuan,  
China, focusing on sharing and display. I plan to make the argument that  
practices around photographs in Chinese families reflect deeper values  
that are worked through in the course of family life. I will present  
evidence in the form of three examples to support this argument: (1) photo  
sharing as reflecting moral behaviour; (2) the propensity to focus on  
subjects such as flowers, and trees and landscapes as reflecting the  
belief of balance in Nature; (3) the use of photo collections as  
reflecting notions of ancestral worship and filial piety. At the end of  
the talk, I argue for: (1) the need to include values in any consideration  
of photo practices; (2) the importance of considering and tracing how  
different values are embedded in everyday technologies.

BIO:
Connor Graham is an Independent Researcher with interests in Studies of  
Everyday Life, Workplace Studies, Human-Computer Interaction and Computer  
Supported Cooperative Work. He has just passed his PhD conducted through  
the Interaction Design Group at the University of Melbourne.


Please forward to others if interested. All are Welcome.
http://www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/research/groups/interactiondesign/seminars.html

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Daryl Ku
PhD Candidate
Interaction Design Group Coordinator

Interaction Design Group
Department of Information Systems
The University of Melbourne
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