Virtual EthnographySAGE Publications Ltd, 2000 M04 4 - 192 pages Cutting though the exaggerated and fanciful beliefs about the new possibilities of `net life′, Hine produces a distinctive understanding of the significance of the Internet and addresses such questions as: what challenges do the new technologies of communication pose for research methods? Does the Internet force us to rethink traditional categories of `culture′ and `society′? In this compelling and thoughtful book, Hine shows that the Internet is both a site for cultural formations and a cultural artefact which is shaped by people′s understandings and expectations. The Internet requires a new form of ethnography. The author considers the shape of this new ethnography and guides readers through its application in multiple settings. |
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... Cultural Artefact 3 Internet as culture Internet as cultural artefact Tracing complex connections The Virtual Objects of Ethnography The crisis in ethnography Ethnography and the face - to - face Text , technology and reflexivity The ...
... Cultural Artefact 3 Internet as culture Internet as cultural artefact Tracing complex connections The Virtual Objects of Ethnography The crisis in ethnography Ethnography and the face - to - face Text , technology and reflexivity The ...
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... cultural artefact (Woolgar, 1996). This approach sees the Internet as a product of culture: a technology that was produced by particular people with contextually situated goals and priorities. It is also a technology which is shaped by ...
... cultural artefact (Woolgar, 1996). This approach sees the Internet as a product of culture: a technology that was produced by particular people with contextually situated goals and priorities. It is also a technology which is shaped by ...
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... culture and cultural artefact. The methodological problem with which Chapter 2 ends forms the basis for Chapter 3. Recent thinking on the relationship between the experience of the ethnographer and the ethnography as a written product ...
... culture and cultural artefact. The methodological problem with which Chapter 2 ends forms the basis for Chapter 3. Recent thinking on the relationship between the experience of the ethnographer and the ethnography as a written product ...
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... readers will feel inspired to explore uses of the Internet which are new to them, and to treat the experience in an ethnographic spirit. 2 Internet as Culture and Cultural Artefact Chapter 1 introduced Introduction 13.
... readers will feel inspired to explore uses of the Internet which are new to them, and to treat the experience in an ethnographic spirit. 2 Internet as Culture and Cultural Artefact Chapter 1 introduced Introduction 13.
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Christine Hine. 2. Internet. as. Culture. and. Cultural. Artefact. Chapter 1 introduced the idea that the Internet could be understood in two quite different ways: as a culture in its own right, and as a cultural artefact. This chapter ...
Christine Hine. 2. Internet. as. Culture. and. Cultural. Artefact. Chapter 1 introduced the idea that the Internet could be understood in two quite different ways: as a culture in its own right, and as a cultural artefact. This chapter ...
Contents
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3 The Virtual Objects of Ethnography | 41 |
4 The Making of a Virtual Ethnography | 67 |
5 Time Space and Technology | 83 |
6 Authenticity and Identity in Internet Contexts | 118 |
7 Reflection | 147 |
Glossary of Internet Terms | 157 |
References | 163 |
Index | 175 |
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