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CfE Analytic: Ethnographic Visualizations

  1. What does this visualization (including caption) say about toxics? 

  2. How does this visualization (including caption) advance ethnographic insight? What message | argument | sentiment | etc. does this visualization communicate or represent? 

  3. Can you suggest ways to elaborate the caption of this visualization to extend its ethnographic message? 

  4. What kind of image is this?  Is it a found image or created by the ethnographer (or a combination)? What is notable about its composition | scale of attention | aesthetic?

  5. Can you suggest ways to enrich this image to extend its ethnographic import?

Visualization Typology

Different types of ethnographic visualizations may:

  • Represent an interlocutor's use of images
  • Represent the interlocutor's perspective
  • Visualize ethnographic data
  • Visualize ethnographic evidence
  • Convey hegemonic/counterhegemonic tensions
  • Trace the paths of a scalar vehicle
  • Simulate an experience
  • Scope out a project space
  • Capture an ideal
  • Convey nodes in a global system
  • Diagram a set of relations
  • Capture an event or process
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