Good Looking With Technology: The iPhone and ethnographic research

Good Looking with Technology
The iPhone and ethnographic research
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Penelope Coutas
EdD Candidate
Murdoch University
p.coutas@murdoch.edu.au
March, 2010

Background to the study

To explore teacher and learner perceptions of the impact of ICTs for learning and teaching Languages
What is going on here?

There must be something more interesting for social scientists to do with their computers than coding data
(Mason & Dicks, 2001, p. 445)

Looking forward: The Horizon Report
http://www.nmc.org/horizon

Methods
Document
(analysis)
Misc.
Focus Group Interviews
Classroom Observations
Interviews

Looking with technologies

Data in the cloud
http://www.exploringthehyper.net

Ethical Considerations
Visual researchers will continue to need to find ways of presenting their research which are acceptable to changing systems of regulation (Wiles, 12)
Informed consent
Working with children
Department of Education: new ethics process
Collection of audio-visual data
Storage of data
Use of audio-visual data
Re-use of data

Ethical Considerations
Visual researchers will continue to need to find ways of presenting their research which are acceptable to changing systems of regulation (Wiles, 12)
For some this meant explicitly ‘making the case’ for undertaking visual research while for others it involved normalising visual methods in ways which delimited the possible ethnical dilemmas of visual approaches.
(Wiles et al., 2010, p. 1)
Informed consent
Working with children
Department of Education: new ethics process
Collection of audio-visual data
Storage of data
Re-use of data
Wiles, R., Coffey, A., Robison, J., & Prosser, J. (2010, January). Ethical regulation and visual methods: making visual research impossible or developing good practice? Retrieved from http://eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/812/

Looking with notes

Looking with a camera

Looking with a camera
iWitnessing or eye witnessing?

Looking with the iPhone

Ethical issues: What happened?
http://www.slideshare.net/pcoutas

Data analysis

Choose your own ethnography

iPhone app development
Developed by 2 teams of ICT333 students at Murdoch

Notes sync with Omeka database and carry metadata across

Good looking with technology
Multi-modal research is not simply a mosaic. Instead … we can see it as a new multi-semiotic form in which meaning is produced through the inter-relationships between and among different media and modes.
(Dicks & Mason, 1999, p. 78)
Ethnographers do not describe what they see, they see what they know how to describe.
(Wolcott, 1999, p. 101)
Computer Engineer barbie is pretty good looking! http://www.barbie.com

Should we use the tools we are most comfortable with, or experiment with new ones so that we’re forced to look and see in different ways?

One quickly realises that, as important as fieldwork is to accomplishing ethnography, it is the mindwork (and the accompanying deskwork) that goes with it that is most critical. Ethnography is more than method.
(Wolcott, 1999, p. 66)

One quickly realises that, as important as fieldwork is to accomplishing ethnography, it is the mindwork (and the accompanying deskwork) that goes with it that is most critical. Ethnography is more than method.
(Wolcott, 1999, p. 66)
Hypermedia ethnography is a valuable and effective methodology for qualitative research that allows for richness, transparency and flexibility in both the research process and the research product. (This is also the problem).

Credits
Dicks, B., & Mason, B. (1999). Ethnographic Hypermedia Environment. Retrieved March 12, 2008, from http://www.cf.ac.uk/socsi/hyper/ht99/EHE.html
Johnson, Laurence F., Levine, Alan, and Smith, Rachel S. (2007). 2007 Horizon Report. Austin, TX: The New Media Consortium.
Mason, B., & Dicks, B. (2001). Going Beyond the Code: The Production of Hypermedia Ethnography. Social Science Computer Review, 19(4), 445-457. Retrieved from http://ssc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/19/4/445
Wiles, R., Coffey, A., Robison, J., & Prosser, J. (2010, January). Ethical regulation and visual methods: making visual research impossible or developing good practice?Retrieved from http://eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/812/
Wolcott, H. F. (1999). Ethnography: A Way of Seeing. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.

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