Engaging the Social Texture of Internet Cancer Support Groups

Matters of Presence and Affectivity in Ethnographic Research on the Internet

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2365486
AutoresMette Terp Høybye (0000-0001-6914-2697, Interdisciplinary Research Unit, Elective Surgery Centre, Silkeborg Regional Hospital, Silkeborg, Denmark and Unit of Survivorship Research, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen45
Número4
Páginas451-473
Fecha de publicación2016-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Contemporary Ethnography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0891-2416 • E-ISSN: 1552-5414
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0891241615574287
OpenAlexW2323677214
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas42

Engaging issues of affectivity and embodiment in ethnographic fieldwork in mediated environments on the Internet, I will examine how ethnographic presence and affectivity is crucial to the production of ethnographic knowledge of the digitally mediated experience. Exploring social relations and negotiations in an extensive ethnographic fieldwork in several Internet cancer support groups, I discuss central epistemological challenges of ethnographic practice; of accessing and positioning oneself in the world we study. It is, I shall argue, our ethnographic presence in the field that mediates the production of ethnographic knowledge as the only viable way to do justice to our field

Ethnography · Field (mathematics · Negotiation · Social science · Sociology · The Internet · World Wide Web · Anthropology · Digital Communication and Language · Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods · Social Media and Politics