Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic has been an inflection point, bringing heightened awareness around the preparedness and resilience of public health systems in dealing with severe shocks. While the pandemic has...
Tag: visual methods
The Motherload
The Motherload is a look at the realities of contemporary motherhood in the time of post-pandemic pressures,...
Seeing It from Other Eyes: How First-Person Data Reshapes the Role of the Applied Ethnographer
This paper argues that first-person data—video, audio, and other data that is recorded from the research...
Images and Imaginaries: Reflections on a New Paradigm of Ethnographic Images in Business
This presentation delves into the speculated impact of AI-generated images on ethnographic practice. Navigating...
EPIC2019 Ethnographic Film
The film session at EPIC explores the ways ethnographic practitioners have used moving images to interpret data, share insights, and tell the stories of their work. Filmmakers showcase these forays in visual storytelling by screening examples and discussing the limits and possibilities of the...
Living Avatars Network: Fusing Traditional and Innovative Ethnographic Methods through a Real-time Mobile Video Service
This paper presents a study of new technologies potentially enabling access to a sensory feast of places by ‘wired up’ flanêurs, real-time as well as remote ‘native’ description and interactions and situated oral histories excavated through ‘being in a place’. We describe an inter-disciplinary...
Thinking and Communicating with Visual Frameworks
This tutorial is a crash-course in one of the most powerful research and storytelling tools—the visual framework....
Evidence Outside the Frame: Interpreting Participants’ “Framing” of Information when Using Participatory Photography
This paper discusses the benefits and challenges of participatory photography as ethnographic evidence and how as researchers we can “read” the evidence our participants create. Drawing on examples from an ethnographic study examining concepts and constructions of community on Salt Spring Island,...
Graphic Ethnography: Communicating Research through Comics
Graphic ethnography is on the rise! In a brief introduction we will explore how anthropological research has been...
Tutorial: An Ethnographer’s Guide to 360 Video
Gain a critical and technical understanding of the benefits, affordances and production workflows of 360 video as an ethnographic and research medium Overview A goal of ethnographic fieldwork is to be able to...