[Air-L] virtual ethnography

Mary-Helen Ward mhward at usyd.edu.au
Sun Feb 1 18:06:17 PST 2009


The '-graphy' part of the word 'ethnography' refers, as Pearse has said, to
writing (about culture, the 'ethno' bit), not to visual artefacts - although
these can be part of an ethnography, of course.

I'm finding this discussion really interesting.

M-H


On 1/02/09 9:51 AM, "manuel.boutet at free.fr" <manuel.boutet at free.fr> wrote:


> 
> About the "graphy" part of "virtual ethnography", i can't agree with your
> statement of impossibility. But i agree about the issue, and above all if you
> mean it literally, if by "graphy" you mean "visual". I see it as an open
> question today, a state of art, and our responsability to go further.




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