[Air-L] Short internet ethnography suggestions

Kalpana Shankar kalpana.shankar at ucd.ie
Thu Nov 15 04:38:09 PST 2018


It is outside of your time range, but my students really "get it" when they
read Old Wine, New Bottles by the late Diana Forsythe about the development
of a migraine patient explanatory system.
Kalpana

On 15 November 2018 at 12:28, Peter Gloviczki <pgloviczki at coker.edu> wrote:

> Good morning, Devin and all,
>
> Christine Hine's work may be of help, especially her Virtual Ethnography.
> Tom Boelstroff and Bonnie Nardi are two other names that come to mind.
>
> Best wishes, Peter
>
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 7:25 AM Devin Proctor <dproctor at gwu.edu> wrote:
>
> > 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
> > >
> > >
> > > ELEANOR R MARCHANT PHD
> > >
> > > ConflictNET<
> > >
> > https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-and-subject-groups/
> politics-and-practice-social-media-conflict-conflictnet
> > >
> > > Postdoctoral Fellow
> > >
> > > Programme in Comparative Media Law & Policy
> > >
> > > Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
> > >
> > > University of Oxford
> > >
> > > Tw: @ermarchant<https://twitter.com/ermarchant>
> > >
> > >
> > >
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Kalpana Shankar
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