Christine M Hine, Christine M. Hine

Virtual Ethnography

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

`This book reflects scholarly dedication to enlarging the discussion on the nature and role of the internet, and provides insight into how ethnographic methodologies can be adapted creatively to research into modern electronic forms of communication.' - International Journal of Market Research

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications UK
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9780761958956
• ISBN-10: 0761958959
• Artikelnr.: 22453180

Autorenporträt

Christine Hine is a reader in sociology in the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey. Her main research centres on the sociology of science and technology with a particular interest in the role played by new technologies in the knowledge production process. She also has a major interest in the development of ethnography in technical settings, and in "virtual methods" (the use of the Internet for social research). In particular, she has developed mobile and connective approaches to ethnography which combine online and offline social contexts. She is the author of Virtual Ethnography (SAGE Publications, 2000), Systematics as Cyberscience (MIT, 2008), Understanding Qualitative Research: The Internet (Oxford, 2012), and Ethnography for the Internet (Bloomsbury, 2015) and the editor of Virtual Methods (Berg, 2005), New Infrastructures for Knowledge Production (Information Science Publishing, 2006), and Virtual Research Methods (SAGE Publications, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Internet as Culture and Cultural Artefact
The Virtual Objects of Ethnography
The Making of a Virtual Ethnography
Time, Space and Technology
Authenticity and Identity in Internet Contexts
Reflection

Rezensionen

`This book reflects scholarly dedication to enlarging the discussion on the nature and role of the internet, and provides insight into how ethnographic methodologies can be adapted creatively to research into modern electronic forms of communication. A glossary of internet terms adds to the usefulness of this well-referenced treaties' - International Journal of Market Research `There is so much to praise in this excellent book: its sensitivity to the culture, its alertness to the most demanding scholarly standards, its innovative analysis of the World Wide Web and its elegant, lively presentation. Students and researchers of the emerging culture should not be without it!' - Sean Cubitt, Liverpool John Moores University