Wednesday, January 25, 2006

The observed observer-Ethnotechgraphy

The ac/rt of participant observation, ethnography being means of understanding human behaviour is a paradox in itself. With the 'observed' in a constant act of being observed, would behave as if being observed and not otherwise. The very presence of a foreign observer, would make it an interaction than an uncontaminated spotless act of a singular self. Ethnography the mini theatre, a drama, the act and the audience. The producer and the consumer. Everybody knows it, theories run awarding doctrates, a very aged problem; issues of privacy, rights and democracy. I write not with a theortical background but with having adventured as the audience mostly, and even as the observed many a times.
The naive ends the paragraph.

Lets employ electronica, let there not be a visual dimension to the act of observation, lets syntheticise it, lets produce live electronic maps, lets observe patterns, lets laboratorise the world, lets see the world flat, lets draw, lets 'tagorise' technology.

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