Ethnography Online: 'Natives' Practising and Inscribing Community
Dados Bibliográficos
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AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) | Texas a&M University |
ANO | 2004 |
TIPO | Artigo |
PERIÓDICO | Qualitative Research |
ISSN | 1468-7941 |
E-ISSN | 1741-3109 |
DOI | 10.1177/1468794104044431 |
CITAÇÕES | 15 |
ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
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Resumo
The article is an analysis of the methodology used to study a community spawned from an Internet website devoted to a television serial. In the five and a half years the site was in existence, its real-time, linear, archived Posting Board spawned a community. Herein, we discuss how our work at the site offers insights into significant concepts in the practice of ethnography. In particular, we are concerned with such questions as: How much distance is necessary between the ethnographer and her site/subjects? Is distance necessary? Who is inscribing whom? We also discuss the generative problem of anonymity and how this concern has opened up our perceptions of ourselves and our field site.