[Air-L] [External] Critical Internet Studies Ethnographies for Use in Undergrad Methods course

Morten Bay mortench at usc.edu
Tue Oct 26 09:39:44 PDT 2021 

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://datasociety.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Data_Society_Searching-for-Alternative-Facts.pdf

The anthology 'Digital Sociologies', edited by Jessie Daniels, Karen Gregory, and Tressie McMillan Cottom also has some good (shorter) online ethnographies in it: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/digital-sociologies

I would also recommend 'Watch Me Play' by T.L. Taylor about Twitch: http://watchmeplay.cc/

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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