Beyond Ethnographic Hypermedia - The Diigo Meta page

• 15 Aug 06
  

  Mike Wesch

  aaa2006 biella ethnography hypermedia hypertext

  • If we unpack Biella’s criteria, we begin to see that ethnography

       

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    and scholarship are defined at least as much as genres as forms. Biella, I suggest,

     

    makes the mistake of conflating form (text vs film) with genre (scholarship vs

     

    personal narrative, for instance).
  • though he offers some suggestions at the end of his article how,

     

    through digital hypermedia, this might come about.
  • Briefly, these are Biella’s eight attributes. A scholarly work must:

     

    1. be articulated within or in response to an established

     

    intellectual paradigm

     

    2. adhere to standards of clarity and argument

     

    3. be comprised of standard, cross-referenced and partially

     

    redundant sections

     

    4. allow rapid, non-linear access to all parts

     

    5. allow users to spend time in recursive study of any part

     

    6. allow users to take unlimited notes

     

    7. allow authors to make unlimited footnotes

     

    8. allow authors to make unlimited bibliographic references

     

    (pp. 140-148)
  • eight core attributes of scholarship, asking, on the basis of these, if it is possible

     

    for cinematic forms to meet scholarship’s demands. Biella finds film lacking in

     

    all eight areas, both in those he terms “requirements for scholarly argumenta-

     

    tion” and those which are “attributes of the medium in which a scholarly work

     

    must be inscribed” (Biella 1993, p. 138).

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