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City University of New York (CUNY)

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2020

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The Video Camera Spoiled My Ethnography: A Critical Approach, Katherine Gregory Oct 2020

The Video Camera Spoiled My Ethnography: A Critical Approach, Katherine Gregory

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As videography and other media technologies are normalized in the field of qualitative methods for the purpose of data collection, there is a growing need to discuss the benefits and limitations of these data collection tools. This article chronicles an ethnographic video study focused on the experiences of Muslim adults living in the Netherlands, and why the author opted to end the project. Issues focus on reckoning with the imperial gaze of the camera, performative behavior of participants before the camera and interdisciplinary tensions the researcher faced from conflicting trainings as a qualitative methodologist and media practitioner.