Digital Autoethnography: An Approach to Facilitate Reflective Practice in the Making and Performing of Visual Art

Neil, Joanna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3539-6530 (2023) Digital Autoethnography: An Approach to Facilitate Reflective Practice in the Making and Performing of Visual Art. In: Crafting Autoethnography Processes and Practices of Making Self and Culture. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 104-118. ISBN 9781032313337

Abstract

The ubiquity of the digital in a society which increasingly captures and shares 24/7 conjures for some images of narcissism, indulgence, confidence and knowing. The ‘selfie’ represents self-obsession rather than self-observation, a constructed self, a self as product and the projection of that self ‘outwards’. Similar criticisms have been made of autoethnographic practice. However, if undertaken in a genuinely inquiring way, we may encounter a version of the self that is both challenging and illuminating. In this chapter, Neil revisits earlier autoethnographic endeavours to demonstrate the ways in which digital technologies and platforms can be used as experimental tools to look inwards, to disrupt routinised practices, and to create new spaces for closely observing, documenting, and reflecting on the ongoing process of crafting her artistic and pedagogic self.

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