ABSTRACT
This chapter will discuss common ethical concerns in anthropology and how networked media, collaboration, and other aspects of multimodal anthropology point the field in new directions by opening up new methods with communities. This means struggling to negotiate various “digital divides,” but also new possibilities for overcoming obstacles to a truly collaborative anthropology. We also explain why we consider this work as formative of “sites” rather than simply the application of various “tools” – that the multimodal extends the fieldsite in interesting (and always problematic) ways. We will set up Chapters 3–7 where we will lay out how we have practiced multimodal anthropology.
