Editing Internet Research Methods (Spring 2016) (section)

=== Week 3: Wednesday April 13: Digital Ethnography & Trace Ethnography ===

'''Session Coordinator:''' Nate

'''Required Readings:'''

* Robinson, Laura and Jeremy Schulz, "[https://canvas.uw.edu/files/36067312/download?download_frd=1 New fieldsites, new methods: New ethnographic opportunities]," Ch. 8 in HET. ''[Available in Canvas]''
* [Selections] Jemielniak, D. (2014). Common Knowledge?: An Ethnography of Wikipedia. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/36067463/download?download_frd=1 "Introduction" and "Appendix A: Methodology."] ''[Available in Canvas]''
* Geiger, R. S., & Ribes, D. (2010). [http://doi.org/10.1145/1718918.1718941 The Work of Sustaining Order in Wikipedia: The Banning of a Vandal.] In Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (pp. 117–126). New York, NY, USA: ACM. ''[Available through UW Libraries]''
* Geiger, R. S., & Ribes, D. (2011). [http://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2011.455 Trace Ethnography: Following Coordination Through Documentary Practices.] In Proceedings of the 2011 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (pp. 1–10). Washington, DC, USA: IEEE Computer Society. ''[Available through UW Libraries]''
'''Optional Readings:'''

* Coleman, E. G. (2010). [http://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.012809.104945 Ethnographic Approaches to Digital Media.] Annual Review of Anthropology, 39(1), 487–505. ''[Available through UW Libraries]''
* [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/36079509/download?download_frd=1 Response by danah boyd To Hine's "Question One: How Can Qualitative Internet Researchers Define the Boundaries of Their Projects?"] from Internet Inquiry: Conversations About Method, Annette Markham and Nancy Baym (Eds.), Sage, 2009, pp. 1-32. ''[Available in Canvas]''
:Note: You may also be interest in reading [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/36079510/download?download_frd=1 the essay by Hine that boyd is responding to]. ''[Available in Canvas]''

This is the canonical book-length account and ''the'' main citation in this space:

* Hine, C. (2000). Virtual ethnography. London, UK: SAGE Publications. ''[Available from Instructor]''

These are all other interesting and/or frequently cited examples of Internet-based ethnographies:

* Humphreys, L. (2007). [http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2007.00399.x Mobile Social Networks and Social Practice: A Case Study of Dodgeball.] Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), 341–360. ''[Available through UW Libraries]''
: Note: Dodgeball is a mobile social network system (MSNS) that allows groups of friends to connect and meet up via mobile phone. The author employed participant observation in order to understand norms of interaction in the MSNS "space".
* Brotsky, S. R., & Giles, D. (2007). [http://doi.org/10.1080/10640260701190600 Inside the “Pro-ana” Community: A Covert Online Participant Observation.] Eating Disorders, 15(2), 93–109. ''[Available through UW Libraries]''
:Note: To conduct the study reported in this paper the authors created a used a fake profile in order to observe the psychological support offered to participants.
* Williams, M. (2007). [http://doi.org/10.1177/1468794107071408 Avatar watching: participant observation in graphical online environments.] Qualitative Research, 7(1), 5–24. ''[Available through UW Libraries]''
: Note: Fantastic more general introduction but takeaways that are more specifically targetted toward people studying virtual reality type environments with virtual physicality.

'''Apropos of class discussion:'''

* Borges, J. L. (1998). [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/36195543/download?download_frd=1 Pierre Mendard, author of the Quixote]. In A. Hurley (Trans.), Collected Fictions (pp. 88–95). New York, N.Y., U.S.A: Viking Press. ''[Available in Canvas]''
* Maxwell, J. A. (2002). [https://canvas.uw.edu/files/36195592/download?download_frd=1 Understanding and validity in qualitative research]. In A. M. Huberman & M. B. Miles (Eds.), The Qualitative Researcher’s Companion (pp. 37–64). SAGE. ''[Available in Canvas]''