Brief Intro to Hypermedia Ethnography

What is hypermedia ethnography? Bella Dicks

a digital environment
Fieldwork
Observations – representations – records
Analysis
Coding v. hyperlinking
Integration of different media
Representation
Hypertext & multimedia
Unilinear v. multilinear writing

possibilities…..
Diversify media in data records
Implications for observation
Implications for data management
Bring diverse media together & interlink
Implications for thinking through relationships in the data set
Present entire data set to reader
Implications for scrutiny, re-use and ethics
Experiment with digital politics/poetics
Implications for multivocality; contingency; user participation…

risks…
Loss of coherence, navigability & authority
Unmanageability of data
Uncertainty about multimedia integration
Need for screen design skills
Ethical issues: consent; anonymity
Information overload

Brief Intro to Hypermedia Ethnography

by Bruce Mason on Feb 17, 2007

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