[Air-L] [External] Critical Internet Studies Ethnographies for Use in Undergrad Methods course
Baron, Robert J.
baronr at apsu.edu
Tue Oct 26 09:49:11 PDT 2021
At the risk of engaging in self-promotion, my dissertation might connect with some of your undergraduate students. Also not published, and probably a bit long-in-the-tooth at this point: https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/127547.
It combines ethnographic and rhetorical methods to examine World of Warcraft and Farmville as digital communities. God, reading this again makes me feel old...
-Rob
Dr. Robert J. Baron, PhD
Department Chair & Associate Professor
Department of Communication
Austin Peay State University
931-221-6819
baronr at apsu.edu
Pronouns: he, him, his
On 10/26/21, 11:39 AM, "Air-L on behalf of Morten Bay" <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org on behalf of mortench at usc.edu> wrote:
Hi,
It's not a book, it's a report, but when I need a good example of an ethnography involving Internet sources, I usually turn to Dr. Francesca Tripodi's excellent Data & Society report on how online sources interact with other channels to form media practices among conservative news consumers: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__datasociety.net_wp-2Dcontent_uploads_2018_05_Data-5FSociety-5FSearching-2Dfor-2DAlternative-2DFacts.pdf&d=DwIGaQ&c=pFsveJJPHV1MuWVdwlSI7Q&r=HsDRbaiMtsFCHk13_DjZCg&m=abM4SdwUOl9cC09FQZWjETrUngUwwhQeXu3L_xnffvn-1LVVLdEiq_zjL0GJkow6&s=A-Wx-YB7mf7x7rW0k5GIhKxLtvcXJC6dOHVsVafLTRs&e=
The anthology 'Digital Sociologies', edited by Jessie Daniels, Karen Gregory, and Tressie McMillan Cottom also has some good (shorter) online ethnographies in it: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk_digital-2Dsociologies&d=DwIGaQ&c=pFsveJJPHV1MuWVdwlSI7Q&r=HsDRbaiMtsFCHk13_DjZCg&m=abM4SdwUOl9cC09FQZWjETrUngUwwhQeXu3L_xnffvn-1LVVLdEiq_zjL0GJkow6&s=KZ23mWC8PTV-Qv8ibk8dajIoP05wp52nAS25qaPEWxk&e=
I would also recommend 'Watch Me Play' by T.L. Taylor about Twitch: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__watchmeplay.cc_&d=DwIGaQ&c=pFsveJJPHV1MuWVdwlSI7Q&r=HsDRbaiMtsFCHk13_DjZCg&m=abM4SdwUOl9cC09FQZWjETrUngUwwhQeXu3L_xnffvn-1LVVLdEiq_zjL0GJkow6&s=kw-NCA-UdjTqDruuZMXqA2SrRphAb0EQhkT49agwd3M&e=
I also totally echo the recommendation of Dr. Roberts book, which is really great - and if you can find the documentary it inspired, 'The Cleaners', that's a really good companion. I use all of the above in my teaching.
Thanks,
Morten
On 10/26/21, 8:38 AM, "Air-L on behalf of cynthiamcleod at umail.ucsb.edu" <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org on behalf of cynthiamcleod at umail.ucsb.edu> wrote:
Hello all,
A recent book by Dr. Sarah T. Roberts also comes to mind: Behind the
Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300235883/behind-screen__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!4k_weWKcUeRuO6ehAPxxle_bM3CZ-4h6lu9olneotUONRTV6fglFuO8pq24-ua4$ .
There could be some interesting connections between the populations studied
by Roberts and Phillips that are worth discussion
Pandemically,
Cynthia McLeod
On Tue, Oct 26, 2021, 07:16 Peter Joseph Gloviczki PhD <pgloviczki at coker.edu>
wrote:
> Andrew and all,
>
> My recent book, Mediated Narration in the Digital Age (Nebraska, 2021)
> might be helpful.
>
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496217639/__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!4k_weWKcUeRuO6ehAPxxle_bM3CZ-4h6lu9olneotUONRTV6fglFuO8pXuWKwHc$
>
> I am glad to Zoom or Skype with any class that would find the book (and
> such a visit) to be useful.
>
> Fondly, Peter
>
>
> Peter Joseph Gloviczki, PhD he/him/his
> Associate Professor of Communication
> Coker University
> 300 East College Avenue
> Hartsville, South Carolina 29550
> 843.383.8379
> pgloviczki at coker.edu
>
> Assistant Editor, Journal of Loss and Trauma (Taylor & Francis)
> President, Carolinas Communication Association
> Past Head, Cultural and Critical Studies Division, Association for
> Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)
>
> Scholarly Books:
>
> Mediated Narration in the Digital Age: Storying the Media World
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496217639/__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!4k_weWKcUeRuO6ehAPxxle_bM3CZ-4h6lu9olneotUONRTV6fglFuO8pXuWKwHc$ > (University of
> Nebraska Press, 2021).
>
> Journalism and Memorialization in the Age of Social Media
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137465368__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!4k_weWKcUeRuO6ehAPxxle_bM3CZ-4h6lu9olneotUONRTV6fglFuO8pLKC5Bk0$ > (Palgrave Macmillan,
> 2015)
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 7:37 AM Andrew Herman <aherman at wlu.ca> wrote:
>
> > Dear AoIRistas
> >
> > I am seeking suggestions for new and recent ethnographies in the field of
> > critical internet studies (broadly construed) for use in my undergraduate
> > methods course in communication studies. I am looking for book-length
> > monographs that are: a) theoretically driven; b) methodologically
> > reflective; c) tell an interesting narrative about the research; and
> > accessible to second-year undergraduates who are willing to stretch
> > themselves.
> >
> > The books do not necessarily have to be located in communication/media
> > studies in terms of discipline. In the past, I have used books that come
> > out of anthropology as well as sociology, such as Ilana Gershon's The
> Break
> > Up 2.0. The book I am currently using is Whitney Phillip's, This is Why
> We
> > Can't Have Nice Things. I have had great success teaching the book, but I
> > am getting tired of it, lol.
> >
> >
> > I look forward to your suggestions.
> >
> > Andrew Herman, Ph. D (he/his/him)
> > Associate Professor
> > Department of Communication Studies
> > Wilfrid Laurier University
> >
> >
> > I acknowledge that I am on the traditional territory of the Attawandaron
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