Open AccessShort Take: Lowering the Access Barriers to Ethnographic Methodology
Author(s) -
Tony V Pham
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
field methods
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.963
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1552-3969
pISSN - 1525-822X
DOI - 10.1177/1525822x20971092
Subject(s) - ethnography , suite , qualitative research , computer science , software , public relations , knowledge management , internet privacy , business , low and middle income countries , data science , sociology , developing country , political science , economic growth , social science , economics , anthropology , law , programming language
Researchers based in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) often cannot access conventional but high-priced ethnographic tools. I developed a low-cost methodology as an exercise in meeting the needs of both LMIC-based researchers and the broader qualitative community. As demonstrated in this proof of concept, ethnographic researchers should strive for a suite of open access software tools and common and affordable hardware to reduce inequities in knowledge generation and dissemination.