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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"visual ethnography"”.
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#LeadingMamas: A Visual Ethnography
… lives. Four participant collaborators employed visual ethnographic methods to create representations of their leader and mother identities and explored the meaning of these representations through focus groups and digital communication tools (Instagram, texting, and Facebook). The findings …
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Storytelling and Self in Public Broadcast: A Visual Ethnography of Rocky Mountain PBS
… informed my theoretical background: embodiment, visual anthropology, the public sphere, practice theory, and phenomenology. Rocky Mountain PBS, a 60-year-old broadcast institution, served as my research site during the summer of 2018. In my thesis, I overviewed the history of RMPBS and …
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Between worlds : communication perspectives of female funeral celebrants in British Columbia --- a visual ethnography
This visual ethnography is an interactive, online, multimedia project that explores female funeral celebrant perspectives on communicating with members of the general public who are immersed in liminal states of consciousness during the process of bereavement. Non-representational theory is …
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No place to call home - a visual ethnography on North Korean defectors in Toronto
… on misrepresentation upon arrival. This is a visual ethnography that explores the experience of North Korean defectors in the city of Toronto, and how these policy changes have impacted their life through the eyes of defectors themselves and other legal, policy, human rights, and settlement …
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Our work, our voice : children's work experiences in Alberta, Canada
… contributions. Through the use of critical and visual ethnography, children presented compelling information on why their democratic voice is so crucial in framing, developing and evaluating children’s work contributions and their participation in society.
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Spacing innovation and learning in design organizations
… of these three case studies. Drawing mainly on visual ethnography, the thesis shows how the four organizations' situated spaces-in-use shape their innovation, learning and knowledge sharing practices. The findings are used to complement and expand existing theories, to reflect on the "spacing" …
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Composing collectivity: exploring musical performance in Havana
Composing collectivity is a visual ethnography that explores musical performance in Havana, using experimental techniques to create a convergence of art, documentary and ethnography. In Cuba music is a way of life, a collective practice and a defining symbol of culture and identity, but also an …
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Skylines and hemlines : a visual exploration of expatriate women’s negotiation and definition of appropriate dress in the changing cityscape of Doha
This paper uses visual ethnography to explore the narratives of definition and negotiation of appropriate dress for eighteen expatriate women who currently live in Qatar’s capital Doha. Rapid shifts to the physical and cultural landscape are a product of Doha’s re-imagining of itself as a global …
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An Intergenerational Photo Exploration Of Self Care Actions In Self-Identifying Strong Black Women
… status were assessed in the project using a visual-ethnography approach to Photo Voice methods and five intergenerational focus groups of SBW's born between 1946 and 2002. The collective self-care knowledge of these eighteen participants was analyzed using a participatory action research …
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Blue Lives Memorialized: Collective Memory and the Production of Ideology and Injustice in American Policing
… Using qualitative research methodology, this visual ethnography looks at the unique and inherent power of police memorialization through the 2015 death of officer Daniel Ellis of the Richmond, Kentucky police department and the subsequent actions of the surrounding community and state …
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The Talking of Objects: Migratory Experiences and Subjectivities of British Chinese Women in Contemporary Britain
… of British Chinese women, this study adopted visual ethnography and material culture as a strategy to bring forward their personal, intimate and creative voices. Through the approaches found in visual ethnography and material culture, the women were given a context where they are at the …
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Exploring the educational aspirations of rural youth: an image-based study using participant produced photographs
… contribute to the community. The purpose of this visual ethnography study was to explore how students in one rural ninth grade classroom perceive their home, school, and community environments as supporting and/or inhibiting their educational aspirations. The approach allowed students to describe …
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Hedonistic deconsumption and upcycling: active, emotional and pleasurable engagement with waste
… immersive study was required. A blended-ethnography, consisting of traditional ethnographic data collection, supported by netnography (to understand online support networks) and visual ethnography (to understand object meanings), was required to capture the hands-on nature of the …
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Surf’s Us: constructing surfing identities through clothing culture in Cornwall
… contemporary scene is evaluated by means of a visual ethnography of a Cornish seaside village where surfing is the focus of social events and commercial endeavours. Through an examination of the clothing culture in the area, it explores how gender and sexuality, class and consumption, community …
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Forging Identities in the Multicultural Society: Cultural Landscape Construction in Langde, China
… shaped their own identities. By employing visual ethnography, this dissertation reveals a Communist vision of multiculturalism, which combines cultural hegemony and community empowerment. The dissertation concludes by proposing an expansion to the framework for understanding how the AHD of …
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Seeing entrepreneurship : visual ethnographies of embodied entrepreneurs
… individuals who exist in a material and visual context, which may enable or constrain the meanings they are able to create. This thesis therefore attempted to address this gap by examining entrepreneurs as "embodied rhetoricians" through a novel methodology known as visual ethnography. …
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Death of a school friend – How young people cope and what helps
… five young people, aged 13 – 21, as well as a visual ethnography of two R.I.P sites relating to the deaths of 2 pupils. Difficulties with gatekeepers and ethical challenges to researching a topic as sensitive as this are a key part of discussions in this thesis. The data was thematically …
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