Noemie Oxley
Assistant Professor
- Department: Communication, Media and Culture
- Office:G-3
- Office Hours:By appointment
No茅mie Oxley is an Assistant Professor in Global Communications at The American University of Paris and a researcher at the Centre de Recherche sur les Arts et Language at the EHESS (Paris). She has been teaching at 黑料正能量 since 2015. Her research focuses on amateur videos shot in situations of crisis and the visual culture of war in the post 9/11 era. She received her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology at the EHESS and in Media and Communications at Goldsmiths University in London. Her dissertation examined the role of the soldier on the Iraq War battlefield through the study of videos shot by American troops posted on YouTube. As part of the National Research Agency (ANR) funded project 鈥淰iolence and sortie de la Violence鈥� (FMSH, Paris), she is currently investigating representations of counter-insurgency warfare in traditional Western media after the Iraq War, as well as amateur videos shot by different actors involved in these terrains and uploaded to social media.
Education/Degrees
- 2010-12/2016 Ph.D. Media and Communications studies Goldsmiths University, London聽
- Thesis title: The Real Nasty Side of War: An Iconology of amateur videos shot by American Soldiers in Iraq聽聽
- 2009-12/2016 Doctorate, Ethnology and Social Anthropology聽
- 脡cole des Hautes 脡tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris聽
- Thesis title: The Real Nasty Side of War: An iconology of Amateur Videos Shot by American Soldiers in Iraq聽
- 2006-2008 master鈥檚 degree, Ethnology and Social Anthropology聽
- 脡cole des Hautes 脡tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris聽
- Thesis title: Quebecois and First Nations in Quebecois Direct Cinema: confrontations and territories. Mention Tr猫s Bien (Graduated with honors)聽
- 2005-2006 Licence (B.A.) Cinema and Audio-visual Studies聽
- Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris聽
- 2003-2005 Deug Cinema and Audio-visual Studies聽
- Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris聽
Publications
Oxley, N. (2017). 鈥淭he Real Nasty Side of War鈥�: Exploring the Embodied Experience of American Soldiers on the Frontline in Iraq through Their YouTube Videos. IAFOR Journal of Media, Communication & Film, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijmcf.4.1.05
Larcher, J. and Oxley, N. (2015). "Dilemmes actuels de l鈥檈thnographe 脿 la cam茅ra", Anthrovision, 3.2. http://journals.openedition.org/anthrovision/1582 ; DOI : 10.4000/anthrovision.1582
Conferences & Lectures
June 2018: 鈥淰isualizing Spatial Injustice and Exploitation鈥� University of Kent. Communication: 鈥淰ideos shot by U.S. soldiers in Iraq: resisting to media and military visualizations of the war鈥�
November 2014: Co-organizer, International Conference: 鈥淩encontres Annuelles d鈥橢thnographie鈥�, EHESS, Paris. Co-leader of the panel 鈥淭he documentary relation: ethnography through images鈥� (鈥淟a relation documentaire : une ethnographie par l鈥檌mage鈥�), EHESS, Paris.
December 2013: Conference PhotoIIAC 2013. Communication : 鈥渢he experience of war in Iraq in the amateur videos shot by American soldiers鈥�, EHESS, Paris.
July 2012: EASA International Conference, Paris, Uncertainty and Disquiet聽
Co-Organization of the panel: 鈥淭he visual in times of uncertainty: experience lived, experience recorded鈥澛�
March 2011: ASCA International Conference and Workshop 2011, University of Amsterdam: Practicing Theory: Imagining, Resisting, Remembering. Communication: 鈥溾�楿S Army Destroy Iraqi Mosque鈥�: Approaching the Experience of Modern Mediated Warfare Through the Critical Analysis of a Video Shot by an American Soldier in Iraq鈥�.聽
Affiliations
CRAL: Centre de Recherche sur les Arts et le Language聽
ANR (Agence Nationale pour la Recherche) funded research project: "Violence et sortie de la Violence", FMSH, Paris聽
Research Areas
* Visual culture
* Popular Culture
* Social movements and social media
* Digital ethnography聽
* Visual anthropology and documentary聽
* Film theory聽
* History of art聽
* Amateur videos practices in crisis situations聽
* History and theory of media and war聽
* Research areas: United States, United-Kingdom, Canada, France and Ital
