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Digital ethnography refers to the application of anthropological data collection methods in both online and offline contexts, it is used to explore both virtual communities and digitally orientated actual communities. Ethnography is not the method; it is the written product of a set of methods. One such method in relation to digital ethnography is participantContinue reading “Digital Ethnography: Weeks 6&7 | Anna Boase”

Throughout Camera Lucida, Roland Barthes employs visual analysis in a deeply personal and novelistic style as he engages with the art of photography, exploring how visual images communicate messages to the viewer. Inserting himself into the text and usurping theory for intimacy, Barthes explores the essence and nature of photography while simultaneously constructing a eulogy,Continue reading “Visual Analysis: Weeks 4&5 | Anna Boase”

What are the particular difficulties that researchers face when there are no step by step procedures to follow, yet there is a requirement for a systematic analysis of a dataset? Discourse analysis, as defined by Tonkiss (2004), is a method of analysis characterized by its preoccupation with the production of meaning through texts and speechContinue reading “Discourse Analysis: weeks 2&3 | Anna Boase”