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A Road to Awareness - Saving Home Movies Campaign in Taiwan UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Los Angeles Media Archiving as Critical Pedagogy: A Road to Awareness - Saving Home Movies Campaign in Taiwan A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Education by Yu-En Hsieh 2018 © Copyright by Yu-En Hsieh 2018 ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION Media Archiving as Critical Pedagogy: A Road to Awareness - Saving Home Movies Campaign in Taiwan By Yu-En Hsieh Doctor of Philosophy in Education University of California, Los Angeles, 2018 Professor Douglas M. Kellner, Chair This study analyzes the idea of ―media archiving as critical pedagogy‖ by using the Saving Home Movies Campaign (hereafter the Campaign) in Taiwan as a case study. Home movies are not only valuable family artifacts but also historical and cultural documents full of signs and symbols and an anthropological record of a transforming society. They reflect the standpoints of the people who produced them, providing messages and information different from official records and mainstream media. This study illustrates how a group of people made it their mission to save, collect, and preserve home movies made and owned by ordinary Taiwanese, and engaged them in home movie preservation practice. The goal of this study is to analyze the Campaign and its use of critical pedagogy, learn the perspective of the ―ordinary people‖ who participated, and interpret what critical pedagogy both the Campaign and the ordinary people bring. This study adopts qualitative approaches to collect data and a combination of textual ii analysis and coding to examine and interpret the data collected. First, I conducted field research in several archival institutions to collect past and current studies related to Taiwanese home movies, as well as the data about the Campaign. Second, I participated in several media archiving workshops held by the Campaign and observed how the workshop activities engaged the participants. Third, I interviewed 15 workshop participants to understand their thoughts about and perspectives on their home movies, the Campaign and the workshop activities. This study reveals that critical pedagogy existed in the interactions among the Campaign, the participants and the current media cultures. The Campaign empowered participants by teaching them preservation skills and knowledge and fostered their literacy on home movies and engaged them in making diagnostic critiques of mainstream media culture. It created an engaged pedagogy by sharing and dialoguing. Also, the Campaign established a participatory archive which collects and preserves counternarratives of ordinary Taiwanese. Through this learning process, people raised their consciousness about themselves and their relationship with the world. Last, the study critiques how digital media technology lowers the technical threshold for preservation while increasing public concern about permanent preservation. Keywords: media archiving, critical pedagogy, home movie(s), Saving Home Movies Campaign, Taiwan, preservation iii The dissertation of Yu-En Hsieh is approved. Kathryn Anderson-Levitt Anne Gilliland-Swetland Robert Teranishi Douglas M. Kellner, Committee Chair University of California, Los Angeles 2018 iv TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION ........................................................................................................................ ii TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................................................................................ v LIST OF TABLES .................................................................................................................................................. viii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ..................................................................................................................................... ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ......................................................................................................................................... xi 1. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................ 1 Media in Transition: From Analog to Digital ........................................................................................................ 2 Don’t Throw Film Away ........................................................................................................................................ 4 Home Movies Matter ........................................................................................................................................... 7 Saving Home Movies Campaign in Taiwan......................................................................................................... 10 Definition of Terms ............................................................................................................................................ 16 Research Questions ........................................................................................................................................... 19 Significance of the Study ................................................................................................................................... 22 Structure of the Dissertation ............................................................................................................................. 23 2. CONTEXTUALIZING HOME MOVIES ...................................................................................... 26 Home Movies in Western Culture ...................................................................................................................... 26 Home Movies in Taiwan ..................................................................................................................................... 30 Home Movies as Family Artifacts ....................................................................................................................... 37 Home Movies as Cultural Heritage .................................................................................................................... 41 Concluding Remarks .......................................................................................................................................... 47 3. THE CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK .......................................................................................... 49 v Media Archiving ................................................................................................................................................. 49 Critical Pedagogy ............................................................................................................................................... 52 Feminist Standpoint Theory ............................................................................................................................... 62 Indigenous Transformation, Local Experience ................................................................................................... 63 4. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY .................................................................................................... 71 Research Design: Qualitative Research .............................................................................................................. 71 Data Analysis ...................................................................................................................................................... 85 Research Ethics .................................................................................................................................................. 88 Research Trustworthiness .................................................................................................................................. 89 Positionality ....................................................................................................................................................... 91 5. SAVING HOME MOVIES CAMPAIGN IN TAIWAN: A TEXTUAL ANALYSIS .................... 93 The Service of Home Movie Preservation, Transfer, and Digitization ................................................................ 93 The Media Archiving Workshop and its Participants ......................................................................................... 96 Concluding Remarks ........................................................................................................................................ 119 6. UNDERSTANDING THEIR PERSPECTIVES: ANALYSIS OF THE PARTICIPANTS’ INTERVIEWS ............................................................................................................................. 120 Portrayal of the Research Participants ............................................................................................................. 120 Learning the Media .......................................................................................................................................... 129 Recognizing their Significance ......................................................................................................................... 138 Transforming their Perspectives ...................................................................................................................... 149 Taking Actions .................................................................................................................................................. 153
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