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This innovative text provides theoretical justifications and practical roadmap for combining online and offline ethnographic methods. Covers the entire research process from initiating your project to collecting data, to analysis and sharing your results. A chapter on ethics provides information on Institutional Review Boards and research practicalities as well as exercises around positionality and a framework for ethics as addressed in each further chapter. Writing exercises provide students with a thoughtful way to engage with the text. Extensive references to primary sources provide readers with a rich background on various applications and theories behind the recommendations in the text.
Hybrid Fieldwork Analysis
Hybrid Fieldwork Analysis
Hybrid ethnography entails months of interaction on social media, regular reading of relevant web pages, conducting interviews and surveys, participating in and documenting field experiences, and critically reading multiple kinds of media. How do all of these interrelated strategies add up to formal research findings? As discussed in previous chapters, hybrid ethnography involves updated strategies for interacting across a digital/physical divide and documenting large amounts of information gathered across the fieldsite. Moving through interpretation and into analysis, expressive culture research requires reading across multiple kinds of ethnographic data, accounting for the situated position of the researcher, and an ongoing commitment to dialogue with fellow participants. This chapter marks your pivot as ethnographer from in-field research to what comes afterward. ...
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