CfE Analytic: Ethnographic Visualizations

These questions guide reading of a single ethnographic visualization (image + caption). It was developed for the UCI Center for Ethnography's 2020 project Visualizing Toxic Places.

Visualizing Toxics

Including Visual Toxic Subjects and Visualizing Toxic Places

What does this visualization (including caption) say about toxics?

Can you suggest ways to enrich this image to extend its ethnographic import?

What kind of image is this? Is it a found image or created by the ethnographer (or a combination)? What is notable about its composition | scale of attention | aesthetic?

Can you suggest ways to elaborate the caption of this visualization to extend its ethnographic message?

How does this visualization (including caption) advance ethnographic insight? What message | argument | sentiment | etc. does this visualization communicate or represent?

Content type

Contributor

Entity type

Annotated Artifact

File format

License

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