[Air-L] virtual ethnography

[laetitia le chatton]

Hi Manuel,

I would be very interested by the french paper on maps. Could you  
indicate the title?
Regards,

lch025 at webmail.uib.no

Le 1 févr. 09 à 02:14, andrea baker a écrit :

> Manuel, hi--
> What type of "maps" are you using?  Do you mean drawings of  
> connections
> between people, similar to what Moreno called "sociograms" or  
> perhaps a
> more modern version developed by Valdis Krebs?
>
> Did you design your own system for mapping the relationships people
> described to you in words?  Perhaps you are talking more about where  
> and how
> people entered an online community and where they went next or how  
> they
> created a shared space, as you call it.
>
> In any case, please let us know when
> your paper is available in English.  It sounds fascinating.
> cheers,
> andee
>
>
> Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:51:35 +0100
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> Selon Pearse Stokes <pearsestokes at gmail.com>:
>
>> Further, if you consult recent articles that claim to perform virtual
>> 'ethnography' generally they perform 'participant observation'  
>> without
>> actually 'writing the culture' (the 'graphy' in ethnography). An  
>> example
>> would be boyd's 'Why Youth (heart) Social Networking sites' ... an
>> extended period of 'deep And for the most part virtual ethnography is
>> just interviews and qualitative analysis. Which isn't ethnography.
>
>
> About the "graphy" part of "virtual ethnography", i can't agree with  
> your
> statement of impossibility. But i agree about the issue, and above  
> all if you
> mean it literally, if by "graphy" you mean "visual". I see it as an  
> open
> question today, a state of art, and our responsability to go further.
>
> For exemple, more than the quantitative / qualitative debate or  
> articulation, it
> seems to me more fruitful to think about the role of museography when
> qualitative methods where created, and about the extended use by  
> "ancient"
> anthroplogists of maps, plans, and other sketchs and drawings, as  
> they were too
> in the "travel diary" tradition.
>
> For exemple, to achieve a better description of the ties in the  
> Internet network
> - writing is very poor to account for their complexity; i found  
> usefull to use
> some tools to map them. These maps were  built to complement  
> descriptions. It's
> a necessity, because, even when you describe precisely how  
> participants find
> their way, without a map it's not clear for the reader how such  
> "short views"
> (participants views are "shorts", they are "for practical matters")  
> could build
> together a "shared space" or "social webspace".
>
> My point is, i really believe in virtual ethnography, because social  
> sciences
> really need these accounts about the ways people not only "act" but  
> find their
> ways out there.
>
> (Actually, i can send my recently publish paper about that very  
> question, but in
> French. English conterparts are not ready yet.)
>
> Regards,
> Manuel Boutet
>
> Centre Maurice Halbwachs (CMH)
> http://www.cmh.ens.fr/
>
> http://manuel.boutet.free.fr
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