ABSTRACT
Drawing on 248 fieldnote entries that I produced during my doctoral fieldwork in Hong Kong, this chapter describes ways in which visual fieldnotes might be analyzed. Seeking to work with a participatory visual ethos, I produced fieldnote entries that I uploaded to a public blog and shared with participants while I undertook the data collection for my doctoral study. I communicated my fieldnotes using a comic-style in order to be accessible to my participants as well as to stakeholders, members of my doctoral committee, and my family and friends in Hong Kong and Canada. In analyzing each visual entry at the site of production, image, and audience (Rose, 2016), I seek to expose how I made and shared meaning of my time in the field through these visual texts. In particular, I highlight the ways in which I visually represented myself, Hong Kong, and participants in my fieldnotes.
