Showing posts with label communication. Show all posts
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Friday, October 05, 2007
Okto: AnthrOkto?
Some weeks ago I attended lectures at Okto. Two colleagues of Social and Cultural Anthropology studies were there, too. We had a little talk about Ethnowelle, afterwards. The lecture held by Mr. Jungwirt focused on various forms of the application of rights in the media. Since I plan to start my own media projects in the near future - I got to make a living and pay my bills - I began to read about copyrights and more applied laws relating to visual media and boradcasting. We discussed some quite interesting points of publishing, i. e. YouTube content and copyright laws, or the causes of difference in European and U. S. laws, as for intellectual property rights. I plan to attend more lectures to start my program. Sunday, September 30, 2007
FQS: Virtual Ethnography
The Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung released a new edition covering Virtual Ethnography in September. Complete texts are provided in English, German and Spanish. What is Virtual Ethnography?
The label "virtual ethnography" includes a broad range of methodological approaches aimed at answering the complexities of the object of research and the different ways in which this object has been constructed. Virtual ethnographers, ethnographers of the Internet or of cyberspace are faced with the need to answer very pressing questions such as how to use heterogeneous data (text, audiovisual data, etc.) in their analysis, or how to combine research in front of the screen and in the virtual field. (1 Beaulieu/Dominguez/Estalella/Gomez/Read/Schnettler 2007)
There is a chapter about Cyberethnography, whereas ethnography is "a written represenation of culture":
Cyberculture is a prolific area of research, and ethnography occupies a central position in studying cybercultures (BELL, 2001). In brief, ethnography is "a written representation of culture" (MAANEN, 1988). It strives to create descriptions of individual or collective subjectivities for the purpose of understanding different cultures. (2 Gajjala/Rybas 2007)
The authors develop ethnographic methods to investigate the internet by basing their research on the epistemologies of doing. In the conclusion they call for a "process-oriented multi-modal cyberethnographic engagement".
Several reviews and conference reports consummate the edition. All texts are available via *.pdf - download, publications date back to the year 2000.
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1 Domínguez, Daniel; Beaulieu, Anne; Estalella, Adolfo; Gómez, Edgar; Schnettler, Bernt & Read, Rosie (2007) Virtual Ethnography. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 8(3), http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-E1-e.htm
2 Rybas, Natalia & Gajjala, Radhika (2007). Developing Cyberethnographic Research Methods for Understanding Digitally Mediated Identities [33 paragraphs]. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 8(3), Art. 35, http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-35-e.htm
Friday, September 28, 2007
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