Anonymizing in digitalized fieldwork

An art-based blurring approach

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2248181
AutoresC G Salinas (0000-0002-7353-4922, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume39
Fascículo6
Páginas15-17
Data de publicação2023-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAnthropology Today (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0268-540X • E-ISSN: 1467-8322
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-8322.12848
OpenAlexW4390034658
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas12

The ongoing refinement of internet technology is compelling anthropologists to reconceptualize data acquisition within the digital realm. Conducting ethnography on sensitive topics that involve imagery necessitates the development of innovative anonymization and pseudo-anonymization methods. This article focuses on two pivotal facets of digital space ethnography: (1) devising strategies to mitigate harm towards participant members of vulnerable communities and (2) ensuring adherence to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) while preserving the privacy of incidental parties on social media platforms. This article demonstrates how artistic blurring is one anonymization technique that may be applied ethically in the digital ethnographic examination of sensitive issues in Norway

Aesthetics · Art · Ethnography · Harm · Internet privacy · Political science · Realm · Sociology · The Internet · World Wide Web · Anthropology · Computer Science · Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Social Media and Politics