ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the features, which comprise the epistemological basis of the author's anthropological research studying popular photography in/of Iran – physically in the country, in the UK, and remotely, online. It suggests that topic-specific research quandaries and established ethical schema should reflexively inform methodological choices made in digital research. The chapter suggests that methodological potentials in digital and visual anthropology offer broader insights into ways of designing and conducting ethically rigorous qualitative digital research via mobile digital technologies and the web, particularly where transnational, Internet and image-related work is concerned. It conducts author's research within the established ethical code of conduct in anthropology, which chiefly considers the protection of research participants and their data, along with the researcher's ethical conduct in the field – however physical or virtual. The chapter conceives of the project as being carried out for the most part in Iran, while conducting digital ethnography, online, simultaneously.
