fellow ethnographers! those of us who are currently doing fieldwork and working with ethnographic methods might be facing extensive challenges in times of #covid19… a thread 👇 #ethnography #academictwitter
how are we supposed to get in touch with “the field” in times of social distancing, lockdowns and quarantines? how can we do field research when our options regarding research trips and stays are extremely limited?
Regarding these questions, I started to collect resources that could help us develop creative and rather unorthodox solutions to continue and/or implement research projects despite the current developments.
The main focus is on moving to digital spaces and fields and on using methods that avoid face-to-face contact. Here’s a (preliminary) list of resources:
Pink, S., Horst, H. A., Postill, J., Hjorth, L., Lewis, T., & Tacchi, J. (Eds.). (2016). Digital ethnography: Principles and practice. SAGE. bit.ly/2WqL96r
Hine, C. (2015). Ethnography for the internet: Embedded, embodied and everyday. Bloomsbury Publishing. bit.ly/33qUP2m
Hine, Christine 2000. Virtual ethnography. London: Sage. bit.ly/2WnSunq
Kozinets, Robert V. 2009. Netnography: Doing ethnographic research online. London: Sage. bit.ly/2IV19Wm
Boellstorff, Tom, Bonnie Nardi, Celia Pearce & T. L. Nardi 2012. Ethnography and virtual worlds: A handbook of method. Princeton: Princeton University Press. bit.ly/2x2Txib
Pink, S. (2013). Doing visual ethnography. SAGE. bit.ly/3a0meuJ
Braun, V., Clarke, V., & Gray, D. (Eds.). (2017). Collecting qualitative data: A practical guide to textual, media and virtual techniques. Cambridge University Press. bit.ly/2TY0Bpg
Fielding, N. G., Lee, R. M., & Blank, G. (Eds.). (2008). The SAGE handbook of online research methods. Sage. bit.ly/2WnHcQb
Hesse-Biber, S. N. (Ed.). (2011). The handbook of emergent technologies in social research. Oxford University Press. bit.ly/2Uf97za
Markham, A. N., & Baym, N. K. (Eds.). (2008). Internet inquiry: Conversations about method. Sage Publications. bit.ly/2Qt4wZ3
Barratt, M. J., & Maddox, A. (2016). Active engagement with stigmatised communities through digital ethnography. Qualitative research, 16(6), 701-719. bit.ly/33ukveD
Beaulieu, Anne 2004. Mediating ethnography: Objectivity and the making of ethnographies of the internet. Social Epistemology 18, 139-163. bit.ly/3dkhq5s
Burrel, Jenna 2009. The field site as a network: A strategy for locating ethnographic research. Field Methods 21, 181-199. bit.ly/2WnHzKz
Coleman, E. G. (2010). Ethnographic approaches to digital media. Annual review of anthropology, 39. b.gatech.edu/2ISZP6u
Garcia, Angela Cora, Alecea I. Standlee, Jennifer Bechkoff & Yan Cui 2009. Ethnographic approaches to the internet and computer-mediated communication. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 38, 52-84. bit.ly/38TMmGc
Jowett, A., Peel, E., & Shaw, R. (2011). Online interviewing in psychology: Reflections on the process. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 8(4), 354-369. go.aws/3d9LXCS
Lane, J. (2016). The Digital Street: An Ethnographic Study of Networked Street Life in Harlem. American Behavioral Scientist, 60(1), 43–58. bit.ly/2Wkfm7o
Lo Iacono, V., Symonds, P., & Brown, D. H. (2016). Skype as a tool for qualitative research interviews. Sociological Research Online, 21(2), 1-15. bit.ly/2Wp78ej
Markham, A. N. (2013). Fieldwork in social media: What would Malinowski do?. Qualitative Communication Research, 2(4), 434-446. bit.ly/3b7iCHe
Ugoretz, K. (2017). A Guide to Unobtrusive Methods in Digital Ethnography. go.aws/38Z6Hdk
The Journal of Digital Social Research just published a special issue on “Doing Digital Ethnography: Private Messages from the Field” – all articles are open access: jdsr.se/ojs/index.php/…
A similar thread with great advice on doing qualitative social research 👇
If you have further ideas, please share them with me!
