[Air-L] Short internet ethnography suggestions

Devin Proctor dproctor at gwu.edu
Thu Nov 15 04:25:19 PST 2018


Eleanor,

In the long tradition of shameless self-promotion, I think a piece I
recently published on scientific knowledge construction in Otherkin
facebook groups might work. It's geared toward an STS audience, but comes
out of years of online ethnography. Here's the link:
https://estsjournal.org/index.php/ests/article/view/252

Hope it helps,
Devin

On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 7:08 AM Eleanor Marchant <
eleanor.marchant at csls.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi Everyone!
>
> I have agreed to teach a guest lecture on ethnography for a friend's
> undergraduate research method course and I'm wondering if people in this
> group might have suggestions for a really great reading. I really want to
> give them a reading that is itself an ethnography (rather than being a
> piece about ethnography or how to do it), and that deals with some aspect
> of technology or internet and society, perhaps incorporating both online
> and offline ethnographic methods. Perferably something published in the
> last 8 years to keep it contemporary. I have tons of favorite ethnographic
> pieces in this vein, but the problem is most of them tend to be books and I
> don't think you can get a good feel for these works by just reading one
> chapter. So does anyone have suggestions about short readings, perhaps, a
> journal article, that fit the bill?
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
>
> Eleanor
>
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