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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... users who send and receive them. The capacity to send information from one computer to another can therefore be used ... User Domains (MUDs) and many other appli- cations (Kollock and Smith, 1999). All depend on the ability of the ...
... users who send and receive them. The capacity to send information from one computer to another can therefore be used ... User Domains (MUDs) and many other appli- cations (Kollock and Smith, 1999). All depend on the ability of the ...
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... user, with information stored centrally, downloaded to a book- store or even the home, and only then printed out to ... users of the old material form and the new virtual form. The trick depends upon stripping the material form of ...
... user, with information stored centrally, downloaded to a book- store or even the home, and only then printed out to ... users of the old material form and the new virtual form. The trick depends upon stripping the material form of ...
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... users to think of it and use it in particular ways (Johns, 1998). Virtual forms of information do not have the same cultural under- standings to support them. The equation of the Internet with the end of the book is therefore not as ...
... users to think of it and use it in particular ways (Johns, 1998). Virtual forms of information do not have the same cultural under- standings to support them. The equation of the Internet with the end of the book is therefore not as ...
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... . The so - called inherent qualities of technology are built in during the design process as the upshot of negotiations about the nature of users . The apparent impacts of the technology depend on users being Introduction 7.
... . The so - called inherent qualities of technology are built in during the design process as the upshot of negotiations about the nature of users . The apparent impacts of the technology depend on users being Introduction 7.
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... users through and around the machine . It is indeterminate : users are in principle free to understand the technology in quite different ways from those that the designers intended . The shorthand for this argument is the ' technology ...
... users through and around the machine . It is indeterminate : users are in principle free to understand the technology in quite different ways from those that the designers intended . The shorthand for this argument is the ' technology ...
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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