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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... experience. Teaching Communica- tions and Media Studies students to develop web pages has been an opportunity to combine theory and practice, and to participate in the learning processes through which web pages are made to make sense ...
... experience. Teaching Communica- tions and Media Studies students to develop web pages has been an opportunity to combine theory and practice, and to participate in the learning processes through which web pages are made to make sense ...
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... experience of buying, owning and reading information. For believers in the extreme predictions of radically altered ... experiences will need to alter if radical future predictions are going to be realized. This argument suggests that ...
... experience of buying, owning and reading information. For believers in the extreme predictions of radically altered ... experiences will need to alter if radical future predictions are going to be realized. This argument suggests that ...
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... experience of space and time ( Kern , 1983 ) . The Internet might be seen to augment possibilities for restructuring social relations across time . and space , but as a part of modern preoccupations 6 Virtual Ethnography.
... experience of space and time ( Kern , 1983 ) . The Internet might be seen to augment possibilities for restructuring social relations across time . and space , but as a part of modern preoccupations 6 Virtual Ethnography.
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... experienced , and how is authenticity judged ? Is ' the virtual ' experienced as radically different from and separate from ' the real ' ? Is there a boundary between online and offline ? I set out to explore these questions through an ...
... experienced , and how is authenticity judged ? Is ' the virtual ' experienced as radically different from and separate from ' the real ' ? Is there a boundary between online and offline ? I set out to explore these questions through an ...
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... experience and interaction. The position changes somewhat if we recognize that the ethnographer could instead be construed as needing to have similar experiences to those of informants, however those experiences are mediated. Conducting ...
... experience and interaction. The position changes somewhat if we recognize that the ethnographer could instead be construed as needing to have similar experiences to those of informants, however those experiences are mediated. Conducting ...
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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