Location: LSE, St. Clement's Building (STC), Room S314, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE Google map of WC2A 2AE.
Date: 21 June 2013, 10.00-17.00
Theme: Ethical issues in first person perspective digital ethnography.

This seminar is an ESRC research seminar. Find out about our other research seminars.

Seminar details

First Person Perspective Digital Ethnography (FPPDE) is the use of wearable mobile digital recording equipment (eg, Sensecam, Subcam, audio-visual recorders) to provide data on the unfolding experiences and decisions of actors within an activity setting.

This fourth seminar, “Ethical Issues in FPPDE,” will explore issues of consent, anonymity, power, and participants’ control of the technology.

Speakers include:

• Paul Kelly (Oxford)
• David Coombe (LSE)
• Jen Tarr (LSE)
• Philip Abrams (British Broadcasting Corporation)
• Flora Cornish (LSE).

How to register

If you would like to attend one of our seminars, please visit the seminar website for registration details. Registration is free, but there are a limited number of spaces available for attendees. Some bursaries are available to those living outside of London for travel to and from the conference (please contact Kevin: k.corti@lse.ac.uk for details).

Seminar schedule

• Seminar 1: Current and potential uses of first person perspective digital ethnography, 18 January 2013
• Seminar 2: First person perspective video data: discovering new questions, 8 March 2013
• Seminar 3: Analysing first person perspective data, 10 May 2013
• Seminar 4: Ethical issues in first person perspective digital ethnography, 21 June 2013
• Seminar 5: The future of mobile first perspective data collection, 27 September 2013

Further information

Please contact:

• Alex Gillespie
  Email: a.t.gillespie@lse.ac.uk
  Telephone: 020 7955 7106 
• Programme details