One of my biggest epiphanies lies in the collecting of autoethnographic information: I require more content production and findings to draw full, holistic data. While I believe my first spoken word essay was deep and generous enough to make an impression, more hearty essays (relating the personal to the cultural) would reveal what I set out to achieve in the pitch – that my DA could help connect people. Connecting people, however, will only come about with a better model of promotion and significantly, with quality essays that are consistent, and perceived as regular performances of my online persona.
Poor time management and a division of attention to aid personal matters have hit hard, leaving me behind my class. There is serious data to deliver and I feel the weight of it. I have not followed along with the course of my DA production schedule orchestrated early in the semester. I feel more confident as I uncover more academic research on autoethnography. Reading and studying more academic papers has allowed me to grapple with real examples of peer-reviewed ethnographic research and in turn, make improvements with my DA. For example, the Journey article discusses the nature of ethnographic research and then reveals a study where the growth of the professional characteristics of teacher educators was researched. This has helped me rediscover my direction of work in my research and analysis area. Heightened academic research on autoethnography and real examples helps a lot.
From my data collection itself, I have had the joy of learning that women are deeply relating to Olivia Gatwood’s poem and the messages behind it. It is more evident than I thought, that women are connected in society by our shared stories and lived experiences.
An article from BMC Women’s Health shows how ethnographic research was needed to explore the socio-cultural influences on treatment decision-making for women in Ghana. Observation and thematic data analysis used in an ethnographic study have overall enabled health professionals to deliver greater healthcare to women in Ghana. https://bmcwomenshealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12905-021-01502-2
The idea of ‘the self as a research instrument’ is talked about in the Oxford Press study, Approaches to Ethnography (Jerolmack and Khan, 2017). Gender, race, and sexuality themselves are material as well as cultural revelations, (Gilmore, 2007) and as researchers, we must acknowledge the lens of our analytical framework. I will be applying a feminist analytical framework that seeks to uncover the shared, lived experiences of female-identifying artists and audience members of spoken word. Approaches to Ethnography speaks volumes to teaching methodical data analysis. I’m aiming to focus my ethnographic eye on relations in my media niche in practice, and only once relations are clear, seek to situate them in constitutive structures. “We seek to identify power as it operates in the field.” (Jerolmack and Khan, 2017)
Analysing data with subjectification has a magnetic draw when an ethnographer is interested in power, which I am, through a feminist analytical framework. I want to draw holistic conclusions on society and culture through studying the spoken word poetry scene. More specifically, I am concentrating on women who create and consume spoken-word – their lived experience, and then mine as the ethnographic researcher.
Together, through a feminist lens and with subjectification in analysis, I am researching in accordance to the existing presentation of my DA and persona. Essays for spoken word and the persona behind it was made for a feminist analysis! I’m looking forward to extending my analysis through this framework. More data, let’s go.
References
BMC Women’s Health – https://bmcwomenshealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12905-021-01502-2
Gilmore, Ruth Wilson. 2007. Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California . Berkeley: University of California Press.
Approaches to Ethnography : Analysis and Representation in Participant Observation, edited by Colin Jerolmack, and Shamus Khan, Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2017. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uow/detail.action?docID=5103623.
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Jerolmack, C. and Khan, S., 2017. The Analytic Lenses of Ethnography: Approaches to Ethnography. Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, 3, p.237802311773525.
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