NCID-1736
Douglas-Wade Brunton
Lecturer in the Department of Literary, Cultural and Communication Studies
University of the West Indies, St Augustine
Education/Degree:
1 Communication Studies (University of Michigan)
About
A digital ethnographer, Douglas is broadly interested in the relationship between digital media and identity construction. Using sport, music, body image, and physical movement as lenses of analysis of the creative and cultural industries, the media and society in the Americas, his work is in the main concerned with the role online performance of self plays in the interpretive constructs of identity, particularly for people of colour.
Current Work
Douglas's research congregates under five themes: temporality, spatiality, identity, race, and culture. Working through these themes, it seeks to (1) expand postcolonial theory by redefining the creole as a technological construct, and theorising it as both method and cultural identity for use as a critical lens; and (2) explain how the online performance of coloured selves plays negatively, and with often fatal consequences, into interpretive constructs of identity. Combined, Douglas's work engages at the nexus of Black identities in the Americas and provides a means with which to negotiate — with new eyes and with new methods — the common spaces in which new cultures, new ways of seeing and hearing, and new meanings were made and in which the dichotomies of our difference and sameness are located.
Research Area Keyword(s)
Caribbean, communication studies, Creole, Cultural studies, technology