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This group will serve as the collective workspace for all participants and contributors to the Center for Ethnography’s 2018-2019 annual program, Visualization in Ethnography. The program will facilitate creative collection, production, and analysis of visualization in ethnography, cued by the wealth of visual practices and media in play in the worlds contemporary ethnographers study. Participation may take form of enrollment in one more of the program's three component projects: a thematic seminar series, Visualization Across Disciplines, a design project, Visualizing Toxic Subjects, and a “field works” project, Soiled Grounds, in which groups of ethnographers travel together to various sites exploring a shared theme, sharing fieldnotes as they go. The program extends the Center’s investment in new collaborative and ethnographic forms, leveraging new technical possibilities and insights on visualization from the arts, sciences, and informatics.

This group will serve as a collaborative workspace for participants of Visualizing Toxic Subjects -- the design project component of the Center for Ethnography’s 2018-2019 annual program, Visualization in Ethnography.

Over the course of the project, participants will publish three iterations of Photo Essays to the group for review by other participants (See PECE Resources below). Photo Essays will include one to three images (found images or original creations) along with a 200-400 word caption and a design statement discussing how and why visualizations were selected or produced, interpreted, and used to convey ethnographic understanding. Each iteration of the Photo Essay will also be assigned for review by other participants using the annotation function of PECE. This elaborate review process, extending from November 2018-February 2019, is intended to facilitate the collaborative development of an appropriate analytic language for assessing ethnographic images. In the final round, each participant will submit their final selections of one to three captioned images along with design statements describing why the image is an exemplary ethnographic visualization. There will be a two-stage (internal and external) review process in March and April. A gallery exhibit will be held in mid-May. The final digital exhibit will be published in mid-June.

PECE Resources and VTS Style Guide:

• VTS Style Guide

• Image Artifacts: Instructions

• Photo Essays: Video Tutorial and Instructions

• Annotations: Tutorial and Instructions (Coming Soon)

This working group, led by UCI Anthropology graduate students, is born out of an express desire by graduate students representing all segments of the PhD journey (from first to 6th years) to tinker, design, develop, and discuss the modalities and implications of “experimentality” within the ethnographic project. This series builds upon existing coursework and training related to ethnography (e.g. ANTH 211A and 212A Research Design; ANTH 230D Ethnographies; ANTH230F Ethnography) and furthers the Center for Ethnography’s goal to foster methodological innovation in ethnography across the campus and situate UCI at the center of such innovations internationally.

In addition to in-person workshops, a major component of this group is the instance of the Platform for Experimental and Collaborative Ethnography (PECE), an open source digital platform that supports multi-sited, cross-scale ethnographic and historical research. This instance of PECE enables UCI students situated both in Irvine and beyond to have ongoing, asynchronous discussions around experimental methods. Discussions include questions on how to run a specific type of ethnographic experiment or how to analyze particular types of experimental outputs. The online space is also a potential home for collaborative analysis and writing projects. We hope this space will enable a community of scholars to continue to engage on these topics from different standpoints in an attempt to overcome some of the detachment that is inevitable in a disciplinary program where extended periods of geographic disconnect is the norm and there are no well-established infrastructures for extended scholarly collaborations.

[in progress]

This group supports work by students in a 2019 University of Oslo summer course, "Experimental Ethnography."  

See the assignment and style sheet for practice digital essays. 

This group will support experimental ethnographic methods research and teaching.  

This is a restricted group where I'll share my research materials with close collaborators. 

This is a restricted group where I'll share my research materials with close collaborators.

This is a restricted group where I'll share my research materials with close collaborators.

This is a restricted group where I'll share my research materials on migration with close collaborators.