Digital selves, material bodies, and participant research tools: towards material semiotic video ethnography

Analysis of social action has increasingly considered the place of ‘things’ in recent years, including seeing objects (both physical and digital) as co-participants in social interaction, systems, and the research process. This article argues that video ethnography is well positioned to address such considerations including, with some methodological shifts, digital activity. Drawing on the methodology and findings of an 8-month video ethnography...