Subject: Today at Noon: Multimedia Ethnography
From: The Methods Centers <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 13:17:17 +0000

The presentation for this talk is now available on the Methods Center website, here:

http://blogs.cam.abtassoc.com/MethodsCenters/?page_id=2554

The Qualitative Methods Center

presents:

Multimedia Ethnography

Kristen Eglinton, Presenter

This talk will offer great insight into how digital ethnography can be applied in a social sector context similar to Abt’s core clients. It will focus on the possibilities and promise of multimedia ethnographic tools in development initiatives and research. Drawing on a recent information-communications-for-development project in South Africa, several methods will be discussed. There will be particular emphasis on the use of multimedia methods in developing and developed regions with little to no infrastructure (e.g., lacking mains electricity, internet).

Kristen is an applied social scientist with experience in community and youth engagement, ICT4D, and multimedia methods including digital storytelling. She has a background in multimedia art and education, and received her PhD in social and educational research from the University of Cambridge. Kristen's most recent book ‘Youth Identities, Localities, and Visual Material Culture’ (Springer, 2013) is an ethnography of youth lives in New York City and sub-Arctic Canada.

Digital story-telling, or participatory ethnography, is a great complement to these earlier Qualitative Methods Center talks:

Anna Jefferson’s talk on using ethnographies in evaluations, and

Revelation Global’s introduction to mobile ethnography.

Thursday, September 12, 2013 12:00 – 1:00 PM

Locations

Potomac Room, Bethesda; Ramp Room 3, Cambridge; and Hatteras Room, Durham

Telecommuters, please call in:

Domestic telecommuters: 1-888-446-7584

International telecommuters: 1-212-372-3742

Participant code:  8350358

To view the slides:

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/join/208320801

Meeting ID: 208-320-801