Introduction to Media Anthropology

Week 1 Task

1. Cross-disciplinary: refers to knowledge that explains aspects of one discipline in terms of another. Common examples of cross disciplinary approaches are studies of the physics of music or the politics of literature.

2.  Inter-disciplinary: refers to new knowledge extensions that exist between or beyond existing academic disciplines or professions. The new knowledge may be claimed by members of none, one, both, or an emerging new academic discipline or profession.

3.Trans-disciplinary: refers to knowledge that exists in every individual, thus eliminating the need for discipline boundaries.

4. Qualitative Research: is a method of inquiry employed in many different academic disciplines, traditionally in the social sciences, but also in market research and further contexts.

5.  Ethnographic Research: is a qualitative method aimed to learn and understand cultural phenomena which reflect the knowledge and system of meanings guiding the life of a cultural group. Ethnography aims to describe the nature of those who are studied (i.e. to describe a people, an ethnos) through writing^. In the biological sciences, this type of study might be called a "field study" or a "case report," both of which are used as common synonyms for "ethnography"^.