[Air-L] Virtual communities spanning multiple online platforms

[Aya Yadlin Segal]

Hi David,



Here are some citations that focus on multi-sited research and internet
media:


Hine, C. (2007). Multi-sited ethnography as a middle range methodology for
contemporary STS. *Science, Technology & Human Values*, *32(6),* 652-671.


Wilson, S. M., & Peterson, L. C. (2002). The anthropology of online
communities. *Annual review of anthropology*, *31,* 449-467.


Larsen, J. (2008). Practices and flows of digital photography: An
ethnographic framework. *Mobilities*, *3(1)*, 141-160.


Charmarkeh, H. (2013). Social Media Usage, Tahriib (Migration), and
Settlement among Somali Refugees in France. *Refuge: Canada's journal on
refugees*, *29*(1).


Aouragh, M. (2008). Everyday resistance on the Internet: The Palestinian
context. *Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research*, *1(2),* 109-130.


Ostrander, M. (2008). Talking, looking, flying, searching: Information
seeking behavior in Second Life. *Library Hi Tech*, *26(4),* 512-524.


Gatson, S. N., & Zweerink, A. (2004). Ethnography online: ‘natives’
practicing and inscribing community. *Qualitative Research*, *4(2),*
179-200.



Other than that, in my own work on "online homelands" I utilize multi-sited
ethnography to follow users within and between different online and offline
spaces. Would love to share the work directly with your student.


Aya


On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 12:26 PM, David Brake <davidbrake at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I have a grad student who wants to look into this really interesting
> question in a literature review essay (see below) - I don't know what
> literatures to suggest to her however - the texts I am familiar with about
> virtual community all tend to look at them on a single platform. Are there
> multi-sited ethnographies and other studies examining this you can suggest?
>
> > I would like to look at how presence on multiple platforms (eg,
> Facebook, Twitter, Web, Blog, etc) either strengthens or dilutes a
> community. This springs off of the discussion you and I had last week about
> how the platform shapes the community (or not to beat the dead McLuhan
> horse - how the media shapes the message). I'm curious to examine how the
> community changes as the platform changes - eg, is it the same community
> spread across multiple platforms or does each platform represent a distinct
> community.
>
> It's my fault for irresponsibly finding the subject interesting ;-)
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> Dr David Brake, Researcher and Educator http://davidbrake.org/, @drbrake
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*Aya Yadlin-Segal, **Ph.D.*
Department of Communication
Texas A&M University
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