A STRANGER HERE MYSELF
AUTO-ETHNOGRAPHY | EDUCATION | JOURNALISM | TRANSMEDIA DIGITAL PUBLISHING
in POST-COVID-19 CHINA [A WORK IN PROGRESS]
个性化民族志 | 教育 | 新闻 | COVID-19 后中国的跨媒体数字出版 [正在进行中]
Auto-Ethnography
According to Ellis (2004) and Garance (2010), auto-ethnography is "a form of qualitative research in which an author uses self-reflection and writing to explore anecdotal and personal experience and connect this auto-biographical story to wider cultural, political, and social meanings and understandings".
Transmedia Storytelling
Transmedia storytelling (also known as transmedia narrative or multiplatform storytelling) is the technique of telling a single story or story experience across multiple platforms and formats using current digital technologies. It originated out of research into "convergence culture" by Henry Jenkins.
Digital Publishing
Digital (or electronic) publishing includes the digital publication of e-books, digital magazines, and the development of digital libraries and catalogues. It also includes an editorial aspect, that consists of editing books, journals or magazines that are mostly destined to be read on a screen
Xi Thought
EdTech
Content-Based Instruction [CBI]
Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, is a set of policies and ideas derived from the writings and speeches of Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping. A stakeholder obligation working within a Chinese govt. run tertiary institution. Wholly misrepresented in Western media.
Educational technology (commonly abbreviated as EduTech, or EdTech) is "the combined use of computer hardware, software, and educational theory and practice to facilitate learning. When referred to with its abbreviation, EdTech, it is often referring to the industry of companies that create educational technology."
CBI is a "significant approach in language education (Brinton, designed to provide second-language learners instruction in content and language... CBI is (thus) considered an empowering approach which encourages learners to learn a language by using it as a real means of communication."
Participant-Observation
A central qualitative research in ethnographic inquiry, participant-observation is "a technique of field research, used in anthropology and sociology, which an investigator
(participant observer) studies the life of a group by sharing in its activities". Recently argued to be transformational in praxis, hence auto-ethnographic inquiry.
Fieldwork (Photo/Video)
On location "practical work conducted by a researcher in the natural environment, rather than in a laboratory or office". An essential component of qualitative, participant-observation based research methodologies. Can include fieldwork photography / videography on smartphone or other digital devices supplanting traditional film work.
Critical Reflection
Critical reflection is "an extension of 'critical thinking'. It asks us to think about our practice and ideas and then it challenges us to step-back and examine our thinking by asking probing questions". In auto-ethnography this can be analytical, evocative and aestheticized, including through abstraction (in multiple media, inc. film) and narrativized personal storytelling.