Autoethnography- Strengths and limitations

[Tina South]

I am interested in Autoethnography and would like to find out the perceptions of other people who access this website about the strengths and limitations of this methodological aspect.

[Karen Sydejesus]

Hi Tina,
I just joined Methodspace and am using autoethnography as well. I do have some articles and books on it. Since your message was from 8 months ago, I am supposing you got the info you needed? Otherwise, let me know and I can send some references to you. Good luck, Karen

[Tina South]

Hello Karen,
Thanks very much for replying to this posting.It is good to finally hear something back. I don’t know whether this is indicative of the fact that not many people use autoethnography. I am really interested in autoethnography and am glad to hear you are using it, but after much deliberation I have opted to use a phenomenological approach for my PhD, as I was warned about getting my proposal through the Research Degrees Committee if I had chosen to use it. However, I have drafted a couple of pieces of work and have not ruled out using autoethnography in the future, when I have gained more confidence as a researcher. I really admire the work of Ellis and Bochner and Karen V Lee.
Would you please share with me what your research is about and how you came to choose autoethnography.
Regards Tina

[Josh Whitkin]

I’m also interested in autoethnography, particularly related to design research. How does it relate to older, similar methods from design studies – ie Schon’s “reflection in action”  / “reflection on action”?

[Mounia]

Hi all,

I am doing autoethnographic research [ plan to] .Can anyone offer suggestions and guides in this regard. I will also desperately and definately appreciate reading materials on this .

 

 

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