7.27 Participatory, multimodal ethnography and changing approaches to representation and practice

 

These are my notes from yesterday - I will be working on finishing thi post

 

Changes relationships to participants= multimodal ethnographers are asking much more of participants both in terms of the amount of participation (work)

Taking a picture of your blog is like taking a picture of a self

 

Places new/different kinds of demands on the ethnographer’s participation

documenting w video/sound recording is different than taking notes

 

Changes participants willingness to be in the ethnography (see their own behaviors more visibly, need to deal with seeming themselves, increased risk of "exposure" to others, more demands for "contributions")

 

Even more problems with data mountain

Issues with anonymity are changed

Makes for reproducibility (representations can be distributed over the net in a  keystroke)

Images/video of participants are different from written descriptions

Changes relationship to authenticity

New need to deconstruct illusion of seamless there-ness of multimodal representations (the illusions of immediacy, immersion and interactivity)