Week 2: Response to Pink and Morgan – Hope Myers

I found this article a little bit hard to concentrate reading although they still had some interesting points. I wish they would have included some more in depth examples but obviously that would require a much longer passage and is not really what they’re talking about. I had not heard much about ethnography before but after these readings I have noticed how much it plays into even everyday life. One of the points I found most interesting and relatable was how a lot of things are not verbalized even when asked about but can be found out through observation.

I agree with Pink and Morgan that you don’t actually always need long term ethnographic studies and you can still get a lot of information and useful data from short studies. I also thought their point about photos and videos was important because that’s what they are observing and so to do analysis and share results with other people it’s good for them to be able to see the same things and makes it easier to understand what you’re talking about. For me it also feels similar to when I do photography. I especially like taking pictures of people as a way of observing, especially in new cultures, and getting insight into their lives.

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