lRAJECTORfES

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digital/visual data on the move
, , The concept of 'Trajectory' seeks
to reflect on the relationship
between four elements: mobility,
visual data, digital methods and
reflexivity, focusing on the use of
the mobile phone as a tool to
engage with these elements while
reflecting on them (336).
, , I want to argue that a constant
looking and wandering could
become, with the use of certain
visual/digital tools and their
affordances, and through the
researcher's constant reflexivity, a
useful approach for ethnographic
research (337).

, , mobile phones and tablet and , , This implies thinking of movement

laptop screens turn public places
into intimate spheres of action
that, observed with the same kind
of mobility they afford, create
alternative readings that could be
help to show hidden tensions in
the study of mobile digital
phenomena (340).
not only as a resource but also as
the enabler of a specific way of
looking (341 ).
, , The field is always a relational
connection between my body, my
gaze and my tools, with reflexivity
as the key element (341 ).

, , Our encounters, always in motion, always random

and most of the time documented, created a
trajectoryto reflect on (339).
, , The randomness and serendipity , , When using smartphones that
of everyday mobility, forming this combine camera features,
'in-transit gaze', could become a metadata recording and GPS
powerful tool when directed systems with different apps to
towards a research goal which store and organise data,
guides the observations. It affords interesting possibilities for
a seamless continuum between ethnographic work could be
observation, mobility, registration discussed [ ...] not necessarily
and imagination (337). (only) technical but they could
also open epistemological
discussions (335).

, , the mobile phone is increasingly becoming an

important research tool precisely because of its
converging capabilities of image-creation and
locative metadata (337). lHINK
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Nathaniel A Rivers, 2020