ABSTRACT
Recent years have seen an explosion in the popular use of wearable camera technology, paralleled by a growing interest in its use for ethnographic research. Once the niche preserve of adventure filmmakers and elite surveillance professionals, various forms of miniature cameras have evolved quickly to become lighter, cheaper, higher resolution, and more user-friendly, and as such have become part of what Chalfen (2014) calls the “capture everything” culture that infuses “new media. A question more rarely considered in discussions of video methods is who or what is registered in the camera’s aural field and how. Who is to be heard, and how clearly? The distinct contribution of wearable video cameras to ethnographic endeavour is fundamentally underpinned by their consummate ease of mobile co-becoming.
