Aliya

Virtual ethnographers, netnographers please join us! Social media research ethics & guides: your thoughts? When designing a study– or reading a published article– how do you decide what is ethical practice for collecting data online? What ethics codes or guidelines do you trust? What questions persist?Discuss report: http://bit.ly/1kvhDAH & your ideas[Read more]

A free chapter from Analyzing Social Networks by Stephen P Borgatti, Martin G Everett and Jeffrey C Johnson is available at the moment which might be of interest to this group.
Download the chapter here http://www.uk.sagepub.com/upm-data/55386_Borgatti_ch_1.pdf and / or find more free sample chapters on SAGE’s ‘selected reading’ list: http://www.methodspac[Read more]

Added a book to the Reading List thread above Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method by Boellstorff, Nardi, Pearce, and Taylor. Any one else reading good things at the moment? http://www.methodspace.com/group/internetethnography/forum/topics/reading-list

Folks might be interested in ‘Theorizing the Web’, a conference taking place in New York in March http://www.theorizingtheweb.org/2013/about.html

These books focus on 4 main types of ICTs for interviews: text-based, multi-channel meetings (such as web conferencing platforms), videoconference or videocalls, and virtual worlds.Various social media and commercial sites combine these communications modes in different ways. Google Hangouts or Skype allow for videocalls and text-based[Read more]

Thanks Janet! I have a friend who’s about to do a commercial project talking to participants in Hong Kong. They want to build a good rapport and create a visually impactful/unusual presentation from the interviews. I’ll forward on your comments and book recommendation and check it out myself 🙂 I’m also interested in finding anyone who’s used Google[Read more]

Aliya,

Yes, I’ve used Adobe Connect and other web conferencing platforms for online interviews. I used the shared whilteboard and variety of visual techniques, including graphic elicitation and graphic collaboration. I wrote extensively on related research design and research ethics issues in Online Interviews in Real Time. I Cases in Online Interview[Read more]

Hi Janet, thanks for that recommendation. If I see anything I’ll let you know.
I also saw one of your comments on another group about online research seminars which I’m re-posting here as some members of this group might be interested too:

• Join me for a conversation about e-interviews! WizIQ Conversations, hosted by Dr. Nellie Deutsch, are live online

[Read more]

I am reading Duoethnography by Richard D. Sawyer and Joe Norris, from Oxford Press, 2013.

This book does not, however, discuss the use of online communications between research partners– a direction I would like to explore. If you have seen articles or studies using or examining online duoethnography, please share! If you are interested in participating[Read more]

Hi Vishwajeet, you might be interested in reading Digital Anthropology eds. Horst and Miller and Netnography: Doing Ethnographic Research Online by Kozinets as starting points. I think Jenna Burrell and Danah Boyd do some really interesting work and they’re both worth checking out too. You can find blog posts and some recent work from Danah Boyd on her[Read more]

joined…need your support

Hello,
I am very interested in Netnography (Robert Kozinet) and Virtual Ethnography (Christine Hine) so if anybody can shed some insight on these topics it would be great!!