[Air-L] Short internet ethnography suggestions

Ferrier, Michelle P. michelle.ferrier at famu.edu
Thu Nov 15 16:58:24 PST 2018


Also check out Participatory Critical Rhetoric... useful chapters in situatedness.
Michelle Ferrier

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> On Nov 15, 2018, at 7:50 AM, Glatt,ZA (pgr) <Z.A.Glatt at lse.ac.uk> wrote:
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> Hi Devin,
> 
> 
> My favourite topic! I agreed that Hine, Nardi and Boellstorff are all excellent. As for article-length works that give a good feel for ethnography, perhaps:
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> boyd, d. (2016). ‘Making Sense of Teen Life: Strategies for Capturing Ethnographic Data in a Networked Era’ in Hargittai and Sandvig (eds.) Digital research confidential: the secrets of studying behavior online. Massachusetts, USA: MIT Press. pp. 79-103. https://www.danah.org/papers/2012/Methodology-DigitalResearch.pdf
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> Burrell, J. (2009). ‘The field site as a network: A strategy for locating ethnographic research’. Field Methods. 21,2, pp. 181–199.
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> Madianou, M. and Miller, D. (2013). ‘Polymedia: towards a new theory of digital media in interpersonal communication’. International Journal of Cultural Studies. 16 (2), pp. 169–87.
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> 
> I know you said you aren't looking for a piece about ethnography, but I found this piece incredibly useful for thinking about online/offline research:
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> Hine, C. (2017). ‘Ethnography and the Internet: Taking Account of Emerging Technological Landscapes’. Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences. 10,3, pp. 315-329.
> 
> Best,
> Zoe
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> From: Air-L <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Peter Gloviczki <pgloviczki at coker.edu>
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> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Short internet ethnography suggestions
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> 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
>>> 
>>> 
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