[Air-L] Short internet ethnography suggestions

[Keith Hampton]

I would suggest Jeff Lane's soon to be released ethnography "Digital
Street" on young people in Harlem. An extensive online/offline ethnography
based on five years of observations, dealing with poverty, gangs, violence,
dating and more. https://amzn.to/2RYqamh

He published a journal article, early observations that does a nice job of
explaining the need for why ethnography of digital subjects needs offline
components:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0002764215601711?journalCode=absb

Keith


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> Hi Everyone!
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> 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?
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> Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
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> Eleanor
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*Keith N. Hampton, Ph.D.*
*Professor, Department of Media and Information*
*Director for Academic Research, Quello Center*
*Affiliate Faculty, Department of Sociology*
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