Author Archives: Meg Ritchie

Within his rethinking around understandings of digital anthropology, Tom Boellstoff (2012) presumes knowledge of ethnography on behalf of the reader. Therefore, to offer a definition:  ‘ethnography is not a single method but an approach that draws on numerous sources – observation, interviews, documents, artefacts – while maintaining a focus on how people experience their dailyContinue reading “Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of digital ethnography based on Tom Boellstoff’s “Rethinking Digital Anthropology” (2012), comparing it to visual analysis.”

In Camera Lucida (1981), Roland Barthes offers an unconscious account of visual analysis in practice. “Unconscious” is appropriate to this discussion as he does not define visual analysis. Regarding this, Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright (1998) comment that visual images are ‘central to how we represent, make meaning, and communicate with the world around us’ (p.1). Hence, visual analysis becomesContinue reading “Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of visual analysis based on Roland Barthes’ “Camera Lucida” (1981), comparing it to discourse analysis.”