[Air-L] examples of qualitative/ethnographic research on NFTs and/or online communities build around blockchain technology

[Alexia Maddox]

Hi Marie, 

I recommend your student looking into the work of Ellie Rennie <https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?hl=en&user=GzyUwGoAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate> and Kelsie Nabben <https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?hl=en&user=vsPDnMIAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate>, who have taken an ethnographic approach to research within Web3. The following sources may be useful.
Ellie Rennie, Michael Zargham, Joshua Tan, Luke Miller, Jonathan Abbott, et al.. Towards a participatory digital ethnography of blockchain governance. Qualitative Inquiry, 2022, 28 (7), pp.837-847. 10.1177/10778004221097056 . hal-03882048

Nabben K (2023) Web3 as ‘self-infrastructuring’: The challenge is how. Big data & society. 10(1): 205395172311590.

Nabben K (2023) Cryptoeconomics as governance: an intellectual history from “Crypto Anarchy” to “Cryptoeconomics”. Internet Histories. DOI: 10.1080/24701475.2023.2183643. 1-23.

Best wishes
Alexia



> On 9 Mar 2023, at 2:30 am, Marie Hermanova via Air-L <air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
> 
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> I'm writing on behalf of a student of mine, who's working on a digital
> ethnography project mapping the buying of deeds in the Otherside metaverse.
> He's interested in the construction of value around NFTs.
> We have struggled to find interesting theoretical approaches or qualitative
> studies/examples of qualitative (ideally ethnographic) research in this
> area.
> It's not exactly my area of expertise (so I hope I'm explaining the topic
> correctly), but I'm sure there are people on this list who know more  - if
> you could point me to articles or books that you think are relevant and
> worth reading and could be an inspiration for the student, I would be very
> grateful!
> 
> best wishes,
> 
> Marie
> 
> *Dr Marie Heřmanová*
> 
> Research Associate, Gender & Sociology
> 
> Editor-in-Chief, Gender and Research <https://www.genderonline.cz/>
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> Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
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> *Latest publications:*
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> Heřmanová, M. (2022). Politicisation of the Domestic - Populist Narratives
> About Covid-19 Among Influencers. Media and Communication 10(4), 180 - 190,
> 
> https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v10i4.5736
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> 
> 
> Heřmanová, M,. M. Skey and T. Thurnell-Read (2022). Cultures of Authenticity
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