For my project I want to be diverse in what kinds of media I use if anything for the sake of variety. I want it to be dynamic to keep things interesting. But at the same time I don't want to drown the reader in pictures and videos and audio. They have to be supplementary.
Definitely going to have some video. A documentary-style intro (probably) with screen caps and a voice over. Very brief. Little snippets.
I also want animated gifs. I want to be able to show something like, for instance, someone "Liking" a person's post. It's better than a picture because it actually shows how it's done but you don't have to replay it over and over like a video. It will just be a looping moving image. Being that I want to show certain things like liking and reflagging that do no take long to do, I don't think each instance has to be a full-on video. I'm rambling but I know what I mean. I just have to explain it better.
Awesome. And I might as well admit the level of my dimness out front here on your blog - I'm not sure exactly what you mean by animated gifs? Are you going to create your own? For your "liking" example - this would just be an animated visual = as opposed to a video of someone liking?
ReplyDeleteI am thinking you will want some interviews with your participants - but maybe (especially since you indicated your participants are going to want to preserve some level of anonymity) => you might consider asking them to do screen-casts (like Dr. Sutton did for his data for 3005 - we can ask him to show it) coupled with a voice-over (by your participant) of what he/she was thinking, feeling - why she/he chose to post = etc.
This is along the lines of a mini-documentary like you set up at the beginning - only you could use it to follow a particular series of posts, and if folks are willing, you and your participants could have a little cluster of autoethnographic reflections following some really interesting thread. Does that fit in with what you were thinking?