[Air-L] Short internet ethnography suggestions

[Lisa Silvestri]

This article uses both online and off-line field research methods:


“Shiny Happy People Holding Guns: 21st Century Images of War.” Visual
Communication Quarterly,

20.2 (2014): 106-118.




On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 7:01 AM Keith Hampton <
keith.hampton at mysocialnetwork.net> wrote:

> 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
>
>
> > Message: 4
> > Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 12:07:33 +0000
> > From: Eleanor Marchant <eleanor.marchant at csls.ox.ac.uk>
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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?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
> >
> > Eleanor
> >
> >
> > ELEANOR R MARCHANT PHD
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