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In our days, Internet needs to be studied not only as a technological phenomenon but also as a social and cultural one with the aim to achieve the needed balance between humanity and technology. This exploration is possible in the context of Folklore despite the pessimistic predictions of its future, in a world which dominated by global economic integration - which is also a global market of ideas and values - science and high technology. Folklorists should integrate the internet into their field of research, particularly in the field of ethnographic research. The internet is offered to transfer the research from the traditionals and real communities to the virtuals.
International Journal of Social Research Methodology
Ethnography and the digital fields of social mediaQualitative researchers struggle to study the transient fields of social network sites like Twitter through conventional ethnographic approaches. This paper suggests that, in order to step further, we should distinguish between the relatively stable ‘contextual’ fields of bounded online communities and the fluid, ‘meta-fields’ resulting from the aggregation of scattered communicative contents based on their metadata. Both these two intertwined layers of the digital environment interplay with users’ online social practices – which are embedded within offline everyday life and vice versa. While Internet ethnography largely dealt with contextual digital fields, recent developments in the realm of online research allow the ethnographic exploration of digital meta-fields and their publics. This shift recalls Marcus’ appeal for a multi-sited ethnography but, in fact, goes further beyond, towards a truly ‘un-sited’ ethnography. I highlight and discuss the main methodological implications of meta- and contextual fieldworks by presenting an exploratory study of European exchange students’ Facebook identities.
This paper explores the intimate relationship between digital technologies and collective memory, using a qualitative approach to the research. It aims to go beyond the human-technology binary of "man versus machine" and address how living in the digital age is creating a more global citizen by transforming concepts of space, time and shared memories
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Stacey Koosel’s PhD thesis is a collection of articles that explore the effects of social media on personal identity. The communication of identity narratives online has become abundant with the increasing popularity of social media. Social media enables users to build profiles based on their personal identities, making identity play a primary source of entertainment in the information age. Topics such as privacy, ethical use of information, authenticity, social control, self-expression, self-censorship and other media affordances have all, subsequently, become important issues. The topic of ‘identity’ is used as a framework through which social media use can be analysed. The cultural phenomenon of digital identity is explored in a collection of seven articles using different approaches, including media ecology, the philosophy of technology, virtual ethnography and artistic research. The articles raise questions about the ideology of identity creation in social media, by interviewing artists on how they use Facebook, pointing out paradigm shifts and paradoxes in contemporary culture and the discussion of other research in the field of digital culture.
Iowa Journal of Communication
Rethinking Life Online: The Interactional Self as a Theory for Internet-Mediated Communication2005 •
Grounded in the philosophies of experience of Martin Heidegger, George Herbert Mead, and Alfred Schutz, this paper presents and emerging concept called the interactional self to illustrate how there are no clear phenomenological distinctions between the so-called “virtual world” and the dichotomously positioned “real world.” Instead, after presenting the two most predominant narrative trajectories that looked at Internet-mediated communication from this real/virtual split, the paper then explores how social interactional and phenomenological approaches can help the Internet researcher come to understand that a more nuanced reality is present in online social settings. Ultimately, the paper shows how the philosophies of experience of Heidegger, Mead, and Schutz can help the Internet researcher better conceptualize the tight intermingling of the online with the offline in Internet-mediated social settings. Such philosophies allow the communication researcher to delve more deeply into users’ phenomenologically-rooted use-contexts, performative practices, and intersubjective life-world experiences in Internet-mediated sociability.
igi-global.com
Pathfinding Discourses of Self In Social Network SitesIt has been argued that social network sites (SNSs) constitute a cultural arena which gives rise to the processes of self-presentation, impression management and friendship performance (boyd & Ellison, 2007). Based on the tenets of discourse-centered online ethnography, this study investigates how identity can be discursively generated, reproduced and co-constructed within the genre of SNSs, taking as a case in point Pathfinder, a Greek portal which incorporates social networking features. The tendencies suggested by interviewing a Pathfinder web developer as well as by a pilot survey on social networking are traced in a popular Pathfinder networker’s profile. Adopting Zhao et al.’s (2008) sociological model of implicit and explicit identity claims on SNSs and leaning on critical discourse analytical tools (Fairclough, 2003; Reisigl & Wodak, 2001), the chapter explores how the online self can be cemented and disseminated in narrative, enumerative and visual terms via an armory of linguistic and multimodal strategies. In this fashion, SNSs should not be approached as a sheer technological artefact, but as a “space for growth” (Turkle, 1997) that encourages users to have agency shaping collaboratively their own linguistic, social and psychological development
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Martynova, Marina. Bašić, Ivana (Eds.). Prospects for Anthropological Research in South-East Europe
PROSPECTS FOR ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN SOUTH-EAST EUROPE2019 •
Occupational Community in the Network Society
OCCUPATIONAL COMMUNITY IN THE NETWORK SOCIETY: AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGISTS AT A SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT COMPANY2006 •
Minor Thesis, submitted as part of qualification achievement for the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) at The University of Melbourne
The Age of Icons: Digitising the Self in Social Media2018 •
PROSPECTS FOR ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN SOUTH-EAST EUROPE
Anthropological Interpretation of Popular Cosmology: Research Perspectives2019 •
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The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research, SAGE, …
The methods, politics, and ethics of representation in online ethnography2005 •
Feminist Media Studies
Epistemologies of doing: E-merging selves online2007 •
Media, Indigeneity and Nation in South Asia
2020. Introduction: screening indigeneity and nation (Introduction to Media, Indigeneity and Nation in South Asia) In Markus Schleiter & Erik de Maaker, Indigeneity, Media and Nation in South Asia. Routledge, Abingdon. pp 1-26.2019 •
Sandra Ponzanesi
Migration and Mobility in a Digital Age: (Re)Mapping Connectivity and Belonging. Television and New Media2019 •
On 'being' online: insights on contemporary articulations of the relational self
On 'being' online: insights on contemporary articulations of the relational self2017 •
Journal of Information Literacy
How do teens learn to play video games? Informal learning strategies and video game literacy2019 •
Critical Themes in Indian Sociology: Essays in Celebration of 50 Years of Contributions to Indian Sociology
New Cultures of Food Studies2018 •
Media Matters Series
Digital Passages. Migrant Youth 2.0. Diaspora, Gender and Youth Cultural Intersections.2015 •
Folklore and the Internet: Vernacular Expression in a Digital World
Epistemology, the Sociology of Knowledge, and the Wikipedia Userbox Controversy2009 •
Encyclopedia of Language and Education
Literacy and Internet Technologies2017 •
KISMIF Book of Abstracts
"Rock in High Heels: a look towards women’s role in Portuguese Rock Music"2018 •
Digital Age in Semiotics and Communication
Digital Age in Semiotics and Communication (presentation pdf)Book review in the Irish Journal of Anthropology
Book review of Integration in Ireland: The Everyday Lives of African Migrants, by Mark Maguire and Fiona Murphy2013 •
in Information, Communication & Society, vol. 15(6): 796-814 (2012)
The Labour of Media Use: The Two Active Audiences2012 •