An ethnographic answer. My view is that multimedia ethnography is a platform for multi-loguing which acts as an electronic forum for discussion and social intercourse among multiple users. This platform encourages a shared vision that enables multimedia stories to become more valid accounts. Learning about each other is a constructionist activity.
Learners create meaning while engaged in discourse.
When a media form that enables electronic manipulation of print, visuals, and sounds is used, learning about each other can become a virtual discourse among a community of readers, reporting authors, and the participants who experienced the event. For example, a reader of a story by a future Margaret Mead on the life of Samoans will be able to link up with those informants in Samoa and talk with them directly. The author's filter is still important, but opportunities exist to include other voices, especially those voices of the people telling their stories. Another example would be readers of electronic newspapers being able to access the journalist's filter as well as the stories told by those who were interviewed. Well, participation is already happening on the electronic network and on some television talk shows.