{"id":426,"date":"2022-08-13T07:51:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T07:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/digitalgold\/?p=426"},"modified":"2022-09-16T07:23:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T07:23:32","slug":"on-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/digitalgold\/on-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Shiny Surfaces of the Smartphone Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For his research, PhD candidate Gabriel Kamundala (University of Zurich) documented the complex work processes of artisanal mining in the Kamituga region (Democratic Republic of Congo). He provided revealing insights into small-scale mining as well as fascinating portraits of the workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Portraits in motion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PORTRAITS_1080x1920_Letterbox_PH.mov\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/748712027?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"443\" height=\"788\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>  <br> <br><strong>Mining sites in Kamituga<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SITES_1080x1920_Letterbox_PH.mov\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/748719172?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"443\" height=\"788\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;<br> <br><strong>Processing raw material<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PROCESSES_1080x1920_Letterbox_PH.mov\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/748735019?h=a5df9d707a&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"443\" height=\"788\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br><strong>Trading gold in the local store<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"STORE_1080x1920_Letterbox_PH.mov\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/748900842?h=447d8ae548&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"443\" height=\"788\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Live photos and videos by Gabriel Kamundala, \u00a9 ZHdK 2021<\/em><br> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For his research, PhD candidate Gabriel Kamundala (University of Zurich) documented the complex work processes of artisanal mining in the Kamituga region (Democratic Republic of Congo). He provided revealing insights into small-scale mining as well as fascinating portraits of the workers. Portraits in motion Mining sites in Kamituga &nbsp; &nbsp; Processing raw material &nbsp;&nbsp;Trading gold &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/digitalgold\/on-site\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Behind the Shiny Surfaces of the Smartphone Industry&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3673,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encounters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/digitalgold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/digitalgold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/digitalgold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/digitalgold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3673"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/digitalgold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/digitalgold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/digitalgold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/digitalgold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/digitalgold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/digitalgold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}