[Air-L] Short internet ethnography suggestions

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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:


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


Burrell, J. (2009). ‘The field site as a network: A strategy for locating ethnographic research’. Field Methods. 21,2, pp. 181–199.

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.


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:


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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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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