We will keep this introduction relatively short as we don’t want to interrupt your work on the mini ethnography.
We hope you have enjoyed making progress researching your chosen online community. That will remain the focus of this week: gathering and presenting ethnographic artefacts, preparing a catalogue entry, and then visiting the gallery spaces of other members of the group. Some excellent explorations of community taking place in some of these galleries and informed discussions taking place around them. Carry on with that same degree of creativity, criticality, and curiosity
As you do consider the range of material that might be regarded as ethnographic data, as well as some of the different approaches that researchers use to tell the story of their work. One of these approaches is the staging of exhibitions where artefacts are juxtaposed with commentary in order to convey the rituals, hierarchies, beliefs or other practices that emerged from a study: hopefully by the end of this week your own gallery space will go some way to doing the same.
If you haven’t started, now would be a good time to do so!
We have two (optional) tutorials scheduled for Monday (1 November) at 12:00 and 19:00. Feel free to attend both if you prefer, but they are basically repeats so feel free to choose the time most convenient for you. These times are listed in GMT.
We will be using Wonder.me for these and the joining URL can be found here. In case you aren’t familiar with Wonder.me, I created a short tutorial video for it which can be found here. Please note it works in Firefox, Chrome, and Edge, but not in Safari.
If you attend, we would like to hear about your initial impressions of your community and the ethnographic method used to explore it. Nothing too detailed really, but we would like to learn more on how it is all going.
Hoping you have a great week ‘in the field’ and then creating your ethnographic exhibition.
Michael and James