ABSTRACT
This chapter explores that data be collected from external sources through interviews with other people, collection of textual and nontextual artifacts, and a literature review. Interviews are used broadly as a qualitative data collection method in social science research. Individual interviews are commonly used in ethnographic fieldwork. Structured interviews utilize an interview protocol that contains planned questions in order to avoid digression from your data collection plan. Muncey argues that artifact collecting is a valuable data collection technique in the autoethnographic study because 'additional evidence is supplied by meaningful artifacts acquired throughout my life to fill some of the gaps left by the snapshots'. Visual data complement textual data and sometimes supersede the benefit of textual data because visual data make long-term impressions on viewers. Harper statement implies that one can gather visible data through observation, inferential data through logical reasoning, and cultural data through interpretation from the photographs.
