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In the fourth chapter of Rethinking Digital Anthropology, Tom Boellstoff (2012) explores the relationship between the virtual and the real in the first part. In the second part, the author studies anthropology through the cases in the virtual world “Second Life” game. In the third part, the author analyzes the theory of the first partContinue reading “Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of digital ethnography based on Tom Boellstoff’s “Rethinking Digital Anthropology” (2012), comparing it to visual analysis.”

The Camera Lucida was Roland Barthes’ last work in 1981. The book seems to be composed of delirious thinking and scattered essays, but in fact, a kind of phenomenological thinking throughout. In this way of de-theorizing, conceptualizing, and systematizing, Barthes constructed his unique theoretical framework of visual analysis, namely “Get back to Photography” (p.7). InContinue reading “Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of visual analysis based on Roland Barthes’ “Camera Lucida” (1981), comparing it to discourse analysis.”

As for the analysis of data, without specific steps, it will not be straightforward to operate. As for the difficulties in data processing, Tonkiss thinks they mainly focus on the following points: defining research problems, selecting and obtaining data, classifying, compiling, and analyzing data. I want to focus on the “Sorting, coding, and analyzing data”Continue reading “The difficult researchers face in analyzing the data-bias”