Distance/Relation
Doing Fieldwork with Social Media
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9285977 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nanna Schneidermann (0000-0002-8505-3915, Institute for International Studies and Interpreting, Oslo and Akershus University College for Applied Sciences, Oslo, Norway, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 287-303 |
| Publication date | 2017-02-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Forum for Development Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0803-9410 • E-ISSN: 1891-1765 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08039410.2017.1284153 |
| OpenAlex | W2586436085 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 25 |
As social media become part of everyday lives across the world, ethnographers are confronted with questions about how to approach the field ‘online’ and what kinds of data social media might generate in research projects that do not have media as their field of inquiry. Based on 16 months of fieldwork among young music artists in Uganda, this article demonstrates how doing fieldwork with social media can shape the research process, both in and out of the field. Drawing from philosopher Martin Buber’s ideas about relation and distance, I argue that though the twofold movement between distance and relation is conditional for human sociality, the shifting tension between these two modes are urgently present in ethnographic fieldwork, and set in motion in new ways, when the field moves online
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Ethnography · Field (mathematics · Field research · Media studies · Political science · Relation (database · Set (abstract data type · Social media · Social science · Sociality · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Computer Science · Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |