Refiguring Techniques in Digital Visual Research

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvi

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2. Technologies, Possibilities, Emergence and an Ethics of Responsibility: Refiguring Techniques

   • Sarah Pink

   Pages 1-12

3. Non-human Sensing: New Methodologies for the Drone Assemblage

   • Bradley L. Garrett, Anthony McCosker

   Pages 13-23

4. Immersive Reflexivity: Using 360° Cameras in Ethnographic Fieldwork

   • Edgar Gómez Cruz

   Pages 25-38

5. Empathetic Visuality: GoPros and the Video Trace

   • Shanti Sumartojo, Sarah Pink

   Pages 39-50

6. In Defence of the “Thin”: Reflections on the Intersections Between Interactive Documentaries and Ethnography

   • Paolo S. H. Favero

   Pages 51-65

7. Ethnography Through the Digital Eye: What Do We See When We Look?

   • Shanti Sumartojo, Adrian Dyer, Jair García, Edgar Gómez Cruz

   Pages 67-80

8. Visual Documentation in Hybrid Spaces: Ethics, Publics and Transition

   • Alison Young, Lachlan MacDowall

   Pages 81-91

9. At the Edges of the Visual Culture of Exile: A Glimpse from South Australia

   • Melinda Hinkson

   Pages 93-104

10. Careful Surveillance at Play: Human-Animal Relations and Mobile Media in the Home

    • Ingrid Richardson, Larissa Hjorth, Yolande Strengers, William Balmford

    Pages 105-116

11. Imagining Technique: Reflexivity, Ethnographic Arts and the Digital-Real

    • James Oliver

    Pages 117-129

12. Erratum to: In Defence of the “Thin”: Reflections on the Intersections Between Interactive Documentaries and Ethnography

    • Paolo S. H. Favero

    Pages E1-E1

13. Back Matter

    Pages 131-136

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This book interrogates how new digital-visual techniques and technologies are being used in emergent configurations of research and intervention. It discusses technological change and technological possibility; theoretical shifts toward processual paradigms; and a respectful ethics of responsibility. The contributors explore how new and evolving digital-visual technologies and techniques have been utilized in the development of research, and reflect on how such theory and practice might advance what is “knowable” in a world of smartphones, drones, and 360-degree cameras. 

• digital-visual techniques
• digital-visual technologies
• research and intervention
• technological change
• digital and visual methods
• emerging technologies
• drone cameras
• ethnographic research
• methodology
• digital-visual research
• research ethics

• Digital Ethnography Research Centre, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

  Edgar Gómez Cruz, Shanti Sumartojo, Sarah Pink

Edgar Gómez Cruz is Vice-Chancellor Postdoctoral Research Fellow at RMIT University, Australia. He has published widely on a number of topics relating to digital culture, ethnography, and photography. 



Shanti Sumartojo is Research Fellow in the Digital Ethnography Research Center at the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Australia.

Sarah Pink is Distinguished Professor and Director of the Digital Ethnography Research Center at RMIT University, Australia.

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