Open AccessIntroduction: Skilled mediations
Author(s) -
Grasseni Cristina,
Gieser Thorsten
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
social anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.452
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1469-8676
pISSN - 0964-0282
DOI - 10.1111/1469-8676.12554
Subject(s) - vision , mediation , ethnography , sociology , section (typography) , social media , aesthetics , psychology , computer science , art , social science , anthropology , world wide web , operating system
In this special section, we conceptualise ‘Skilled mediations’ to examine the following questions from several ethnographic perspectives: How do skills and media interact, enable and limit our engagement in our material and social environments? How can this be studied ethnographically? We take our previous works on ‘skilled visions’ and ‘enskilment’ as starting points to define skilled mediation as a mode of engagement with the senses, practice, skill and media.