[Air-L] Participant observation online: an article-length study?

Rainer Hillrichs hillrichs at uni-bonn.de
Tue Jun 16 12:36:06 PDT 2015


Thank you all for your responses!

I'm done!

Best,
Rainer


On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 9:32 PM, Marc Zune <marc.zune at uclouvain.be> wrote:

> Hi Anna,
> This article (preprint) describes and problematize the way we conducted a
> 5 years ethnographic survey about a French OSS community called Spip.  The
> question of the evolving research relationship in the ethnography of online
> group is central in our argument:
> http://sites.uclouvain.be/libre/spip.php?article63
> Best,
> Marc
>
> Marc Zune
> Iacchos, U. of Louvain, Belgium
> sites.uclouvain.be/libre
>
>
>
> Le 16 juin 2015 à 10:02, Anna E. Haverinen <aehaverinen at gmail.com> a
> écrit :
>
> > Hi Rainer,
> >
> > In my recent doctoral dissertation I have a chapter about online
> > ethnography and when it is participatory or not (chapter 3.2. The New
> > Trobriand - doing ethnography online). Nardis and Boellstorffs works are
> > excellent and I highly recommend Christine Hine as well, she has a new
> book
> > this year. My work is about online memorial cultures and you can download
> > it from here: https://www.doria.fi/handle/10024/98454.
> >
> > Best,
> > Anna Haverinen, PhD
> > Digital Culture, postdoctoral researcher
> > University of Turku, Finland
> > www.annahaverinen.com
> >
> > 2015-06-15 15:42 GMT+03:00 Eric Meyer <eric.meyer at oii.ox.ac.uk>:
> >
> >> When I teach digital ethnography, I find the most accessible example of
> >> well-done participant observation to be Nardi's book. Part 1 in
> particular
> >> talks about method in a very concrete way:
> >>
> >> My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of
> >> Warcraft 2010. Michigan: University of Michigan Press, Prolog, and
> chapters
> >> 1 & 2 Available online at:
> >> http://www.digitalculture.org/books/my-life-as-a-night-elf-priest
> >>
> >> Besides being an example of Nardi's excellent and engaging work, the
> bonus
> >> is that students can read the book for free online.
> >>
> >> Eric
> >>
> >> Professor Eric T. Meyer
> >> Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor
> >> Director of Graduate Studies
> >> Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
> >> Email: eric.meyer at oii.ox.ac.uk
> >> Web: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/meyer/
> >> Google Scholar: http://bit.ly/GS-ETMeyer
> >> SSRN: http://ssrn.com/author=912385
> >> Twitter: @etmeyer
> >>
> >> Recently published:
> >> Meyer, ET and R Schroeder. (2015). Knowledge Machines: Digital
> >> Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities. Cambridge, MA: MIT
> Press. (
> >> http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/knowledge-machines)
> >>
> >> Meyer, ET. (2015). The Expert and the Machine: Competition or
> Convergence?
> >> Convergance: The International Journal of Research into New Media
> >> Technologies. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354856515579840)
> >>
> >> Deetjen, U., Meyer, E.T. and Schroeder, R. (2015). Big Data for
> Advancing
> >> Dementia Research: An Evaluation of Data Sharing Practices in Research
> on
> >> Age-related Neurodegenerative Diseases. OECD Digital Economy Papers, No.
> >> 246, OECD Publishing. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/5js4sbddf7jk-en)
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of
> Rainer
> >> Hillrichs
> >> Sent: 15 June 2015 01:36 PM
> >> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> >> Subject: [Air-L] Participant observation online: an article-length
> study?
> >>
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >> in my seminar "Methods for researching online media and media culture"
> >> there is a session on participant observation. I have an introductory
> text
> >> to the method (the respective chapter from Boellstorff et al.,
> *Ethnography
> >> and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method*), but I still need an article
> or
> >> chapter-length study to sort of illustrate the application of the
> method.
> >> Any suggestions?
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Rainer
> >>
> >> https://uni-bonn.academia.edu/RainerHillrichs
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