Digital Ethnography

For those having trouble finding the Schienke essay

The Interest Group for Digital Practices in History and Ethnography will address the data concerns of history as a research domain and those of the ethnographic disciplines (including cultural anthropology, folklore studies, ethnomusicology, interpretive sociology, and science and technology studies). This group proposes to build a medium sized tent (smaller than the whole of the digital humanities or of the social sciences, larger than a particular discipline) to explore strategies and frameworks for the collaborative care and use of research data of diverse types.

"Products for democratizing information, increasing transparency and lowering barriers to sharing stories."

New book on most things considered "digital" and "ethnography" from UT Press.

A fascinating article about crowdsourcing and asking people online to help categorize images in the name of research! Presents an interesting take on highlighting the difference between what people and computers are capable of.

So I couldn't find this on our site so far, but I recently downloaded this app on my ipad. This program essentially allows you to mark up PDFs, articles, etc. by highlighting, taking notes, and so forth. It runs around $9.99, so I was a little hesitant at first, but this app is really valuable! I've always struggled to read articles paperless, and this app really helped by productivity levels skyrocket. You can also export your notes, so you can basically write your papers/etc. as you read. 

Just another transcription tool to look at!

"What is the Free Music Archive? The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of legal audio downloads directed by legendary freeform radio station WFMU. This project wouldn't be possible without our curators, who select and upload all the music you'll find here. Curators come from all over the world, and have a wide range of experience with good music. They include freeform radio stations, netlabels, artist collectives, performance spaces, and concert organizers. If the FMA were a radio station, the curators would be our awesomely obsessive DJs."

This is an interesting article I stumbled across the other day. It's discussion of changes in technology, methodology, and data and their influence on framing the popularity of music, particularly in regards to race, is really interesting.

Great place to look up book, journals, articles and grey literature. Open Folklore is a scholarly resource devoted to increasing the number of useful resources, published and unpublished, available in open access form for folklore studies and the communities with which folklorists partner.

You can watch Open Folklore's Twitter Feed for the latest updates on all things digital and folklore/antho/&ct. and the discussions surrounding them. The latest from Open Folklore (@openfolklore). OF is a scholarly resource that will make a greater range of useful resources available for folklorists and for other interested communities

ORDINARY MIRACLES: THE PHOTO LEAGUE'S NEW YORK is a feature-length documentary film which tells the story of the rise and politically motivated fall of the Photo League, (1936-1951) which for fifteen years served as the center of the documentary movement in American photography at a time when the camera was held to be, in James Agee's words, "the central instrument of our time."

Another source for data illustration.

A feature in National Geographic 's October 125th anniversary issue looks at the changing face of America in an article by Lise Funderburg, with portraits of multiracial families by Martin Schoeller, that celebrates the beauty of multiracial diversity and shows the limitations around our current categories when talking about race.