The Pilgrm Must Embark: Living in Community Part 1

The Pilgrim Must Embark: Living in Community is a 25-minute ethnographic video on the challenges facing community living in a residential facility for people with AIDS (PWA). The video focuses on the interpersonal, group, and organizational tensions that accompany group living as residents cope with the mundane details of daily life and the harsh reality of chronic illness and death. Specific attention is given to the communication practices that enable residents and staff to forge and sustain relationships in this fragile community. This video includes extensive coverage of various house activities (i.e., meals, dish duty, house meetings, support groups, and bereavement rituals) and interviews with 5 residents.
This video is designed to be used in a wide range of communication courses, including interpersonal communication, small group communication, organizational communication, health communication, mass communication, and communication research methods courses. This video can be used to illustrate an array of issues that are relevant to these communication courses, including: * The tensions that individuals feel as members of a group and organization, and how communication practices massage these tensions * Interpersonal communication and relationships are the heart of community * Newcomers socialization into organizational life * Rites and rituals play in sustaining a community * Communication practices that facilitate coping with chronic illness and death * The purpose and practice of ethnographic communication research * The value of video/film as a research tool

The co-producer, Mara Adelman, Ph.D., spent 6 years as a volunteer and researcher in this home (mara@seattleu.edu). Study guide and articles available. Produced by Mara B. Adelman, Ph.D. & Lawrence R. Frey, Ph.D.

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