concepts, ideas and examples

I use the same preface in both of these annotations - please correct me if my understanding and internalization of the article is not representative of the author’s intentions. How I apply this article to the theory and practice of archive ethnography is once again through intentionality of the researcher. It makes practical sense to consider a contemporary digital platform to publish findings and archive data. However, the individual researcher must make a decision for themselves, using their personal orientation to their work and the community they study to publish in an open access space. As an archive ethnographer, one must resolve for themselves if their purpose is to contribute to academic discourse solely or if they would want to engage the broader community. Because data management is central to archive ethnography, the question of radical open access, open politics (the communicative power of the information), and the process of experimentation will be essential to each project. While I recognize that there are significant considerations regarding radical open access, the author demonstrates that there are researchers who are dedicated to shaping the platform and function to be secure, reflexive, and “intellectually reinvigorating”. If the community-subject is comfortable with the open access, it seems to make the most sense that the community should be able to access the work. The push against commercialization surfaces throughout the article and this feels especially related to archive ethnography as the researcher has the ability to position their work to be accessible to the communities that they study (which, in many cases, are not academics).