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Social Semiotics and Fieldwork: Method and Analytics
(SAGE Publications, 2007-01)Drawing from recent analytical developments in semiotics and postmodern ethnography, this article exposes and assesses the combination of social semiotics and fieldwork as a form of qualitative inquiry. Approaches to ... -
Nonrepresentational Theory and Symbolic Interactionism: Shared Perspectives and Missed Articulations
(University of California Press, 2004-08)Nigel Thrift’s Non-RepresentationalTheory is the latest—and more coherently and thoroughly formed—of his recent attempts to develop the ontological foundations and the practical agenda of an interdisciplinary theoretical ... -
The techne of making a ferry: a non-representational approach to passengers’ gathering taskscapes
(Journal of Transport Geography, 2011)Drawing upon ethnographic data collected in British Columbia’s ferry-dependent island and coastal communities, non-representational theory, and mobility studies literature this article examines the process of making, or ... -
Technologies of the sky: a socio-semiotic and critical analysis of televised weather discourse
(Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2007-04)We offer a critical reading of televised weather reporting and forecasting discourse. We analyze text obtained from a US affiliate station of The Weather Channel over three days when a winter front advanced through the ... -
Interpreting George W. Bush: A socio-semiotic illustration and a performance extension
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2004)In this article I analyze the official portrait of U.S. President George W. Bush to exemplify my previous theoretical elaboration of an interpretive analytics of the sign based on socio-semiotics and symbolic interactionism. ... -
Low and slow: Notes on the production and distribution of a mobile video ethnography
(Mobilities, 2017)The present article is a brief reflection accompanying Low and Slow: a 26 min ethnographic video documenting the occupation of commercial floatplane pilots, with a particular focus on their skills, technologies, sense of ... -
Ethnographic film and video on hybrid television: Learning from the content, style, and distribution of popular ethnographic documentaries.
(Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 2015)Academic ethnographers have been utilizing film, and more recently video, for a variety of research purposes including the collection, analysis, and dissemination of data. But ethnographic film and video are not the exclusive ... -
Storm watching: Making sense of Clayoquot Sound winter mobilities
(Routledge, 2016)From Goa to Bali, from Tuscany to rural and coastal Spain, and from Puerto Vallarta to Palm Springs, one key characteristic of lifestyle migration destinations is clear: warm, sunny climates (e.g. see Gustafson 2009; Korpela ... -
The GoPro gaze
(cultural geographies, 2017)During 2014–2015, we produced a short video documentary, titled The Art of Wild, which focused on the audiovisual practices of outdoor adventurers. This short written report reflects on an idea inspired by the video: the ... -
The Meanings of a Star: Interpreting Music Fans' Reviews
(University of California Press, 2004-02)This article both elaborates on and empirically supports Norman Denzin's thesis on the political aesthetics of interpretation. Through a reading of consumer reviews, I discuss both the image and the music of the contemporary ...
