SARAH PINK: DIGITAL ETHNOGRAPHY

Sarah Pink is a Professor of Design and Media Ethnography at RMIT University, Australia, and the author or co-editor of several books about digital ethnography.
To approach this area, we get Sarah’s help with some conceptual groundwork about the methods, values, and history of ethnography, and its relation to neighbouring fields such as anthropology or cultural geography. But the conversation focusses on digital ethnography: Information technology changes not only the methods of ethnography by providing tools or modes of expression, but also raises new questions by changing notions of embodiment, geographic place, and social relation, all of which are central themes for ethnographers. We also talk about how an field that largely eschews prediction and hypothesis can reason about future technology such as self-driving cars.
Sarah’s book is Pink et al., Digital Ethnography: Principles and Practice, SAGE Publications, 2016.

[@mapmakerdavid]

It would have been nice if the interviewer just let Dr. Sarah Pink speak more. Oftentimes, he was interrupting and putting words in her mouth.

[@random-dn7lw]

wow, you were here! :)

[@mapmakerdavid]

@@random-dn7lw Helloooo hehe. Kainis lang talaga si kuyang interviewer na maepal lol.

[@veronicadimarco4670]

I can feel Dr. Pink's struggle in even finishing her sentences sometimes. Which is a shame because she is saying extremely interesting things and why, why would you ever interrupt that!

[@drewc3210]

I would have to agree with a lot of the comments. It's discomforting to have him interrupt. It feels like his timing doesn't allow her enough to express the extent of the questions he's asking and thoughts he's desiring her to expand.

[@fatgirl4501]

In the US the four branches are 1. Physical/Biological 2. Social/Cultural 3. Archaeology 4. Linguistic and now some say that applied anthropology should be its own branch, but its a bit all-encompassing so I think of it as a vein of anthropology that runs through all the branches

[@Kunalalal]

21:53 world paused for a while

[@annas4376]

It's funny that he has been busting to interrupt her all this time and then he has nothing to say. You can tell she is a good listener, as she patiently waits.

[@a.f.m.4134]

i can't help but be reminded of all the ways that gender plays a role in academia while watching this. interviewer was annoying and came off amateurish.

[@amarjyotiboro]

There are 5 main branches of Anthropology. 1. Socio-Cultural anthropology 2. Biological or physical anthropology 3. Archaeological Anthropology 4. Linguistic Anthropology 5. Applied Anthropology

[@fedordostoievski6751]

But applied anthropology is part of social anthropology.

[@amarjyotiboro]

@@fedordostoievski6751 I think it is. But everything has an applied aspect, it's good if there is a separate discipline for it.

[@xarityfan4370]

sad they didn't get to part to the difference of digital and cyber ethnography (if there is)

[@ecotextileStudio]

Digital ethnography has many names: virtual ethnography, online ethnography, cyber-ethnography, or even ethnography. Digital Ethnography | PERCS - Elon University

[@videoFara]

A very insightful dialogue! Thank you!

[@domdompie3038]

It would have been great if he didnt intrup her all the time. It was difficult for me as a listener to concertrate as she couldnt carry on the discussion for more than few minutes without getting constanty interupted.

[@samuelmingo5090]

Biological, Cultural, Archaeological, Linguistics :P