Noemie Oxley
Assistant Professor
- Department: Communication, Media and Culture
NoĂ©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 AUP 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 âViolence and sortie de la Violenceâ (FMSH, Paris), she is currently investigating representations of counter-insurgency warfare in 91Ž«Ăœ 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, LondonÂ
- Thesis title: The Real Nasty Side of War: An Iconology of amateur videos shot by American Soldiers in Iraq Â
- 2009-12/2016 Doctorate, Ethnology and Social AnthropologyÂ
- Ăcole des Hautes Ătudes en Sciences Sociales, ParisÂ
- Thesis title: The Real Nasty Side of War: An iconology of Amateur Videos Shot by American Soldiers in IraqÂ
- 2006-2008 masterâs degree, Ethnology and Social AnthropologyÂ
- Ăcole des Hautes Ătudes en Sciences Sociales, ParisÂ
- Thesis title: Quebecois and First Nations in Quebecois Direct Cinema: confrontations and territories. Mention TrĂšs Bien (Graduated with honors)Â
- 2005-2006 Licence (B.A.) Cinema and Audio-visual StudiesÂ
- Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle, ParisÂ
- 2003-2005 Deug Cinema and Audio-visual StudiesÂ
- Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle, ParisÂ
Publications
Oxley, N. (2017). âThe Real Nasty Side of Warâ: 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 lâethnographe Ă la camĂ©ra", Anthrovision, 3.2. http://journals.openedition.org/anthrovision/1582 ; DOI : 10.4000/anthrovision.1582
Conferences & Lectures
June 2018: âVisualizing Spatial Injustice and Exploitationâ University of Kent. Communication: âVideos shot by U.S. soldiers in Iraq: resisting to media and military visualizations of the warâ
November 2014: Co-organizer, International Conference: âRencontres Annuelles dâEthnographieâ, EHESS, Paris. Co-leader of the panel âThe documentary relation: ethnography through imagesâ (âLa relation documentaire : une ethnographie par lâimageâ), EHESS, Paris.
December 2013: Conference PhotoIIAC 2013. Communication : âthe experience of war in Iraq in the amateur videos shot by American soldiersâ, EHESS, Paris.
July 2012: EASA International Conference, Paris, Uncertainty and DisquietÂ
Co-Organization of the panel: âThe visual in times of uncertainty: experience lived, experience recordedâÂ
March 2011: ASCA International Conference and Workshop 2011, University of Amsterdam: Practicing Theory: Imagining, Resisting, Remembering. Communication: ââUS Army Destroy Iraqi Mosqueâ: Approaching the Experience of Modern Mediated Warfare Through the Critical Analysis of a Video Shot by an American Soldier in Iraqâ.Â
Affiliations
CRAL: Centre de Recherche sur les Arts et le LanguageÂ
ANR (Agence Nationale pour la Recherche) funded research project: "Violence et sortie de la Violence", FMSH, ParisÂ
Research Areas
* Visual culture
* Popular Culture
* Social movements and social media
* Digital ethnographyÂ
* Visual anthropology and documentaryÂ
* Film theoryÂ
* History of artÂ
* Amateur videos practices in crisis situationsÂ
* History and theory of media and warÂ
* Research areas: United States, United-Kingdom, Canada, France and Ital
