[Air-l] question about cyberspace ethnography literature

[Anne Beaulieu]

Besides the excellent suggestions already mentionned, you might want to
look at a recent paper called 'Mediating Ethnography',  in which I
analyse how ethnographic approaches have been adapted to the study of
the Internet. Blogs are also specifically discussed, as a way of
adapting intersubjectivity to a virtual context. A pre-print is
available here:
http://www.niwi.knaw.nl/en/nerdi2/group_members/a/publ/toon 

The following is another valuable resource where lots of virtual
ethnography researchers and literature can be found:
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/ethnobase/ 
 
Looking forward to your article!
 
Anne
 
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Dr Anne Beaulieu
Networked research and digital information
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Joan Muyskenweg 25
Postbus 95110
1090 HC Amsterdam
The Netherlands
tel: (31)(20)462-8739
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http://www.niwi.knaw.nl/en/nerdi2/group_members/a/toon 

>>> "Alireza Doostdar" <alireza at doostdar.com> 16/06/2004 15:37:51 >>>

Dear AoIRs,

I'm in the process of revising a paper I've submitted to the American
Anthropologist about blogging in Iran, which I've titled "'The Vulgar
Spirit of Blogging': On Language, Culture, and Power in Persian
Weblogestan". My ethnographic research consisted in part of
maintaining
a Persian-language blog where I wrote observations and commentary on a
debate that was raging among many Iranian bloggers at the time on
"vulgar" linguistic and cultural practices, and where I engaged in
conversations with other bloggers. In my paper, I reflect on my
methods
of drawing attention to my own words on my blog (through hyperlinking,
explicitly invoking other people's blog entries, sending trackback
pings, making provocative statements, etc) so as to get comments from
other people, and I analyze these methods within a larger context of
communicative practices by bloggers who write to be noticed and who
need
to be noticed in order to be read. Based on this and other analyses, I
conceptualize blogging (in the Persian language at least) as an
emergent
speech genre (in the Bakhtinian sense) that draws on various on- and
off-line genres of speech.

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!

Thank you in advance,

-Alireza


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