TY - JOUR
T1 - Engaged critical browsing
T2 - Hong Kong home culture presented in hypermedia
AU - Choi, Kimburley W.Y.
AU - CHUNG, Wai Ching
N1 - Funding Information:
The work described in this article was fully supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (RGC Ref. No. 159613).
PY - 2018/4/1
Y1 - 2018/4/1
N2 - This article examines the experiential and analytical routes of the researchers-authors’ web-project titled ‘Making Home: Tai Hang’, which investigates Hong Kong home culture by accessing informants’ domestic world through different layers of interpretation via hypermedia presentation. The web-project’s [http://taihang.scm.cityu.edu.hk/#en] multilayered navigation structure—playful yet scholarly introduction, ‘tourlike’ yet distant ‘virtual’ field experiences, participants’ situated yet performative accounts of home lives, and the researchers-authors’ inductive categorizations—communicate multi-dimensional ethnographic accounts of home culture in Hong Kong. Employing media in isolation and in interaction (i.e. graphic illustrations, panorama photography, interaction of images and audio vignettes of participants’ narration and researcher-participant dialogues, and multiple micro-narratives on objects) via website’s hypermedia nature, we argue that hypermedia representation affords engaged and critical readings of ethnographic knowledge as situated and multivocal, interpretive and constructed.
AB - This article examines the experiential and analytical routes of the researchers-authors’ web-project titled ‘Making Home: Tai Hang’, which investigates Hong Kong home culture by accessing informants’ domestic world through different layers of interpretation via hypermedia presentation. The web-project’s [http://taihang.scm.cityu.edu.hk/#en] multilayered navigation structure—playful yet scholarly introduction, ‘tourlike’ yet distant ‘virtual’ field experiences, participants’ situated yet performative accounts of home lives, and the researchers-authors’ inductive categorizations—communicate multi-dimensional ethnographic accounts of home culture in Hong Kong. Employing media in isolation and in interaction (i.e. graphic illustrations, panorama photography, interaction of images and audio vignettes of participants’ narration and researcher-participant dialogues, and multiple micro-narratives on objects) via website’s hypermedia nature, we argue that hypermedia representation affords engaged and critical readings of ethnographic knowledge as situated and multivocal, interpretive and constructed.
KW - ethnographic knowledge
KW - graphics
KW - home culture
KW - Hong Kong
KW - hypermedia
KW - micro-narratives
KW - non-linearity
KW - panoramic photography
KW - reflexivity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85044363917&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1468794117714304
DO - 10.1177/1468794117714304
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85044363917
SN - 1468-7941
VL - 18
SP - 224
EP - 242
JO - Qualitative Research
JF - Qualitative Research
IS - 2
ER -