Friday, March 19, 2010

Sarah Pink, "Doing Visual Ethnography"

Images inspire conversations, conversation may invoke images
Pink, defines ethnography as a "methodology an approach to experiencing, and representing culture and society that informs
Ethnography is a process of creating and representing knowledge about society, culture and individuals
The use of visual media and methods creates new ethical and practical dilemmas
Photography can inspire people to represent and articulate experience that they may not in an interview
Photography and video bear a relationship with reality. The connection between visual images and experienced reality is constructed though individual subjectivity and interpretation of images.
Reflexive approach to classifying,analysing and interpreting visual research materials recognizes both the constructedness of social science categories and the politics of researchers' personal and academic agendas

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