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

[Marc Zune]

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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