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Advantages and disadvantages of digital ethnography, compared to visual analysis
Esther Walker 35295120 According to Boellstorff (2012), digital anthropology (or ethnography), refers to the methodological process of researching online, virtual spaces. The method aims at understanding the ‘direct and indirect ways online sociality points at the physical world and vice versa’ (2012:40), articulated through his discussion on the rethinking of digital anthropology through indexicality. Part…
Advantages and disadvantages of visual analysis, compared to discourse analysis
Esther Walker 35295120 In Roland Barthes’ (1981) Camera Lucinda, he writes how visual analysis involves three practices for interpretation; the Operator (the photographer), the Spectator (the audience), and the Spectrum (the person or thing photographed) (1981:9). Each of these practices accumulate into the spectacle that is the photograph, and the ability to analyse it through these…
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