[Air-L] Short internet ethnography suggestions

Thu Nov 15 05:15:07 PST 2018

Thank you thank you thank you, Crystal 

xoxo

Andrew
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Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2018 8:11 AM
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Subject: Re: [Air-L] Short internet ethnography suggestions

hello eleanor and internet friends,

gabriele de seta and i guest-edited this series of short (~1,000 words),
friendly, academic blogposts on doing digital ethnography earlier this
year. the whole collection is forthcoming with an anthropological journal
as a special issue:

1) Private Messages from the Field: Confessions on Digital Ethnography and
Its Discomforts
by crystal abidin + gabriele de seta
https://anthrodendum.org/2018/01/19/private-messages-from-the-field-confessions-on-digital-ethnography-and-its-discomforts/

2) A Digital Bermuda Triangle: The Perils of Doing Ethnography on Darknet
Drug Markets
by alexia maddox
https://anthrodendum.org/2018/01/22/a-digital-bermuda-triangle-the-perils-of-doing-ethnography-on-darknet-drug-markets/

3) Somewhere Between Here and There: Goldilocking Between Fieldwork and
Academia
by crystal abidin
https://anthrodendum.org/2018/01/29/somewhere-between-here-and-there-goldilocking-between-fieldwork-and-academia/

4) We Have Never Been Digital Anthropologists
by rebekah cupitt
https://anthrodendum.org/2018/02/03/we-have-never-been-digital-anthropologists/

5) Three Lies of Digital Ethnography
by gabriele de seta
https://anthrodendum.org/2018/02/07/three-lies-of-digital-ethnography/

+ two journal articles from yours truly:

1) a mix of traditional & digital ethnography/fieldwork, on influencers and
social media selfies:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305116641342

2) purely digital ethnography/fieldwork, on children on social media and
family influencers:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305117707191

happy guest lecturing! hope it goes well. and thank you for starting this
query so we get to collect fabulous examples from the crew.
/c
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On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 at 23:51, Glatt,ZA (pgr) <Z.A.Glatt at lse.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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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> Gloviczki <pgloviczki at coker.edu>
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> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Short internet ethnography suggestions
>
> 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<
> > >
> >
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> > >
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> > >
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> > >
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> > >
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> > >
> > >
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