Multimodal Sorting: The flow of images across social media and anthropological analysis
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In this chapter, I discuss how to work with smartphones and social media, focusing on the images that informants make and share, and images that anthropologists make and collect. I argue that ethnographic insights may emerge through multimodal sorting of these (digital) materials alongside other fieldwork materials. Each fieldwork and each process of analysis is particular and differs from the next, yet certain steps and techniques can be discerned in the process. They emerge as techniques in retrospect, whereas I offer them in this chapter as prospective, in a template form to
be appropriated and adapted.
be appropriated and adapted.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Experimenting with Ethnography : A Companion to Analysis |
Editors | Andrea Ballestero , Brit Winthereik |
Number of pages | 17 |
Place of Publication | Durham, |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Publication date | May 2021 |
Pages | 133-150 |
Chapter | 10 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4780-1199-6, 978-1-4780-1074-6 |
Publication status | Published - May 2021 |
Externally published | Yes |
Series | Experimental Futures |
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- Faculty of Social Sciences - Multimodal Anthropology, Social Media, Analysis, Experimental ethnography, The ethnographic effect, Protocols, Sorting, techniques
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