“As Haynes (2018) puts it, autoethnography is a method where “the researcher is the focus of reflexive inquiry”, but it is recognized that “the researcher’s self is inevitably experienced and positioned within a social [and cultural] context”, and so autoethnography “enables the researcher themselves to form a subject of lived inquiry within a particular social [and cultural] context”.” - David Gauntlett
“Auto-ethnographers do not protect the readers from becoming emotionally involved in the case at hand (Muncey, 2005), but expose them to a “patchwork of feelings, experiences, emotions, and behaviors that portray a more complete view of life” (Wall 2008, p.10).” ⤴️(Smolicki, 2017)
“ability “to connect the personal to the cultural”(Ellis and Bochner, 2000, p.739).” ⤴️
“reflection written from the perspective of an isolated entity, but rather from the perspective of a conscious subject who recognizes its complex links to and an entanglement in wider social and cultural contexts of which the auto-ethnographer’s reader is also a participant. Moreover, in autoethnography the researcher’s personal experiences can or even should be explored parallel to the experiences of the other subjects (Ellis and Bochner, 2000; Maso, 2001). In this sense, the method acquires a dialogical dimension, and therefore does not risk being taken for a detached introspective monologue – a recurrent point of critique it receives (Coffey, 1999).” ⤴️
evaluation through “how much the narrative expresses the reality” as questionable, difficult, contestable ⤴️
“I propose to attend to (and possibly approach the evaluation of) my auto-ethnographically informed study of the modes of personal archiving a process of shaping, constructing and accounting for one, particular view on techno-cultural reality from within.” ⤴️
“plug the reader into the trajectory of my life with technologies, as well as a series of decisions and responses made in relation to the proliferation of capturing technologies. I do it, for example, through highlighting transitory moments from one technology or technique to another.” ⤴️
“It is easy to fall into traps set by one’s beliefs and opinions. This is why I find it extremely important not to reduce research to the auto-ethnographic method alone. I find it necessary to complement auto-ethnography with other methods and other voices, to juxtapose” ⤴️