I went to a really wonderful online talk run by CFSS about methodologies for fashion research and i was very inspired about how to write about my thesis methods – particularly my practice with the intent of broadening the scope of fashion studies from an analytical and critical perspective and focusing on digital storytelling.
- Storytelling as a performative method
- Dressing is storytelling
- Intended to communicate to others
2. Interactive processes – digital production tools
- Echoes second wave feminist 70s performance artists concerned with politics of the body
3. Ethnography for Online spaces
- The data can be ephemeral
- Usually requires a prolonged immersion in the field but we are in a virtual domain
- The nature of instagrams algorithm orders a feed
- challenges of ethnography of a hybrid space (Farrel and Holkner 2014)
How to know the limits of the research – when ANT stops – when it is imposed by researcher? – pragmatic decisions such as time frames have to be made in the same way for any empirical research.
