[Air-l] question about cyberspace ethnography literature

[amarkham]

Off the top of my head (or from my Internet browser bookmarks), I
would recommend:

Baym, N. (2000).  _Tune in, Log on_.  (Sage publishers).

And I'll add my own book, _Life Online:  Researching real experience
in virtual space_. (Alta Mira Press, 1998).

Also see an overview of issues related to ethics and representation in
online ethnography:  Markham, A.:  "Reconsidering Self and Other:  The
methods, politics, and ethics of representation in Online
Ethnography." In N. Denzin and Y. Lincoln (Eds.).  Handbook of
Qualitative Research.  (forthcoming)
Online draft here:
http://ascend.comm.uic.edu/~amarkham/writing/denzinlincoln.htm

Johns, M. D., Chen, S. L. S., & Hall, G. J. (Eds.). (2003).  _Online
social research:  Methods, issues, and ethics_.  (Peter Lang Press).
(good edited collection with many issues addressed)

Buchanan, E. (2004).  Readings in Virtual Research Ethics:  Issues and
controversies. (Information Science Publishing)
(includes many relevant readings in online qualitative research
methods/ethics.  Many good chapters.  I'll mention here  Malin
Sveningsson's chapter "Ethics in Internet Ethnography," which provides
a good overview of some major issues.)

Eichhorn, K. (2001).  Sites unseen:  Ethnographic research in a
textual community.  International journal of Qualitative studies in
Education, 14 (4), 565-578.

Special issue on internet research ethics.  Ethics and Information Technolog
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/nissenbaum/ethics_ess.html.

and, of course, the recommendations of the AOIR working committee on
ethics:www.aoir.org/reports/ethics.pdf

Hope these are of some use to you,

Annette Markham

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On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 20:01:48 +0200, Maja van der Velden
<maja at globalagenda.org> wrote:
>
> To Alireza,
>
> Blogging thoughts: personal publication as an online research tool
> by Mortensen, T. and J. Walker (2003),
> www.intermedia.uio.no/konferanser/skikt-02/docs/
> Researching_ICTs_in_context-Ch11-Mortensen-Walker.pdf
>
> Success, Maja
>
>
> On Jun 16, 2004, at 3:37 PM, Alireza Doostdar wrote:
> > One of my reviewers has asked that I situate my intensively engaged
> > ethnographic method within a literature of cyberspace ethnography that
> > discusses such engagement (and other methods, like lurking) and the
> > relevant theoretical and ethical issues. I already have several pieces
> > I
> > can use, including Christine Hine's "Virtual Ethnography" and David
> > Hakken's "Cyborgs at Cyberspace?". I would TREMENDOUSLY appreciate
> > pointers
> > on other relevant literature, preferably things I can get my hands on
> > fast, as my revisions are due by Monday!
> >
>
>
> Maja van der Velden
> http://www.globalagenda.org
>
>
>
>
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Annette N. Markham, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication (M/C 132)
1007 W. Harrison Street
Chicago, IL 60607-7137
amarkham at uic.edu
http://ascend.comm.uic.edu/~amarkham/