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01Portraiture as a research method: Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot's "painting with words", how it differs from ethnography, and the case against itPortraiture puts the researcher's own judgement at the centre of a study and measures success by whether readers recognise the truth of the portrait, not by whether anyone could repeat it. Its sharpest critic says that leaves no way to check the portraitist; its founder's answer is that a visible self demands more discipline, not less.ArticleVideo & design48 quotes · 1 source · 9 min11 Oct
02How investigative YouTube video essays are built: the cold open, the late turn to meaning, and the channels that borrow the form without the evidenceThe strongest forensic video essays open on an artifact, walk through evidence in the order a viewer would experience it, and say what it all means only late in the video. That delayed turn is what persuades, which is why the same structure works just as well for channels whose evidence does not hold up.ArticleVideo & design46 quotes · 1 source · 9 min11 Oct