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Aug 14, 2021

Microethnography Reflection

This microethnography explores an interaction in a local dental office in Cary, North Carolina, to understand what physically embodied movements and material objects might indicate in this interaction. This particular exploration of the interaction looks at a video recording of the interaction during a financial consult for the patient on…

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Microethnography Reflection
Microethnography Reflection

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Aug 14, 2021

The Shift to Participation

Video-based Ethnography Blog #10 It’s hard to believe we’ve arrived at the end of the summer semester! This summer’s reading have shifted my outlook on video in a variety of ways — from the positionality of the filmmaker to reflexive power of video, these readings have explored concepts that have…

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The Shift to Participation
The Shift to Participation

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Aug 4, 2021

Video Diary Reflection

Introduction Gibson (2005), drawing from ethnomethodology in a Bourdieusian framework, offers a focus on the structures that organize participants choices in production (38). The author posits, “…videos, thus, are always mediated by the participants’ internalized perceptions of the social world and thei positions in it. …

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Video Diary Reflection
Video Diary Reflection

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Aug 4, 2021

Letting the Camera Leave My Hands

Video-based Ethnography Blog #9 By nature, humanity are selfish creatures in many ways; we want what we want, and we want to keep what we can get. We want control over our lives. Academics, especially, want control over their research, and creatives too want control over their work. …

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Letting the Camera Leave My Hands
Letting the Camera Leave My Hands

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Aug 2, 2021

Fleeting Moments

Video-based Ethnography Blog #8 “A video diary is a digitized diary used for research with purposes similar to those of studies using written diaries; that is, the collection of data on informants’ lives over an extended period. The informants are supplied with a video camera and receive the necessary instruction…

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Fleeting Moments
Fleeting Moments

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Aug 2, 2021

Missing Out on Simplicity

Video-based Ethnography Blog #7 Ethnography, on the surface, seems to be this sweeping, grand field where a researcher travels to the end of the earth studying “foreign” (I mean this in jest) contexts and bringing back novel ideas to Western minds. Microethnography takes that and says: no. Streeck and Mehus…

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Missing Out on Simplicity
Missing Out on Simplicity

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Jul 27, 2021

Finding Your People

Video-based Ethnography Blog #6 Every once in a while, in this academic space in which we live and work, we get a small ray of hope. Being an academic researcher often feels like living on a deserted island in the middle of the ocean — you and your ideas are…

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Finding Your People
Finding Your People

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Jul 27, 2021

The Reckoning of Art & Science

Video-based Ethnography Blog #5 I have a mentor (who’s a dentist) who regularly reminds me that my work is both an art and a science; the mediums which I use to craft stories and accounts is technical in nature and requires a certain level of skill and ability. However, storytelling…

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The Reckoning of Art & Science
The Reckoning of Art & Science

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Jul 20, 2021

Raise Your Voice

Video-based Ethnography Blog #4 For as long as I can remember, when other creators ask me to self-identify who I am, my answer is always simple: I am a storyteller. The stories change and the mediums change and the outputs change, but there are always stories and they are always…

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Raise Your Voice
Raise Your Voice

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Jul 20, 2021

A Contrast of Docs

Video-based Ethnography Blog #3 Documentary film-making as a category covers a broad range of stylistic choices, types of media, and varying perspectives of film. Although Minh-Ha’s Surname Viet Given Name Nam and Lee’s 4 Little Girls share this commonality in category, they could not be any different from each other…

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A Contrast of Docs
A Contrast of Docs

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