Visually engaged ethnography: constructing knowledge and critical consciousness. Issue 2 (1st September 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bell, Travis R.
• Is Part Of: Journal of media practice. Volume 17:Issue 2/3(2016)
• Page Start: 126
• Page End: 137
• Publication Date: 2016-09-01
• Subjects: Visual ethnography -- engaged ethnography -- critical consciousness -- mass media; Journalism -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; Mass media -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; 302.23071141
• DOI: 10.1080/14682753.2016.1248173
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1468-2753

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Engaged ethnography requires a deep rationale for involvement and a passion for a particular cause. Visual ethnography implements an aesthetic component, compliment, or fold into that complex, multi-layered engagement. This theoretical research attempts to move beyond traditional, epistemic debates and blend anthropological, communicative, and sociological concepts to form a cohesive approach to knowledge construction that exposes power, educates on publicly important issues, and reaches a critical consciousness to visually engage the public sphere. It is through that effort to recognize when a break from the shackle of our own limits of consciousness can create previously unattainable knowledge.