Resource on PhotoEthnography

Here is an interesting site by Karen Nakamura on Photoethnography - “the art and science of representing other cultures visually.”

Our Summer 2004 work used a kind of photoethnography. We called it a photo-journaling and photo-elicitation study. We asked participants to take pictures of their daily interactions with information, and then we used those photos during follow-up interviews to elicit narratives about perceptions and practices. It was a fantastic technique. We got lots of rich data, but it wasn’t very focused. More specific picture-taking directions would have helped to solve this problem.

Annotated Bibliography on Media Anthropology

I’m not quite sure what ‘media anthropology’ is in 2005, but here is an annotated bibliography on the subject that looks like a great resource. I know from experience that this kind of work is very time consuming, so it’s fantastic to have this resource online! (Thanks to Zerzaust for the link)