/ Further Research
Allison Cavanagh, Behaviour in Public? : Ethics in Online Ethnography - "Can we justifiably regard online interactions on bulletin boards, mailing lists and in chat rooms as "public status" or do they constitute, as others may argue, a form of private conversation which is embedded within a public space?"
Christine Hine, Virtual Ethnography - "This paper explores methodological issues raised by an ethnographic approach to the Internet. The paper is motivated by an ongoing concern with the Internet as a technology and as a communication medium. The aim is to develop ways to study not just to how people use the Internet, but also the practices which make those uses of the Internet meaningful in local contexts."
Roberta-Anne Kerlin, Toward a Theory of Women's Doctoral Persistence - "Among the advantages of collecting data online is that message content rather than one's physical presence or status becomes the focus of attention for both interviewer and interviewee. Participants are not under the same pressure to respond immediately to the researcher's queries as they would be in face-to-face communication. In a virtual interview the physical separation from the researcher has the advantage of providing an emotional safety zone for participants as they relive sometimes painful experiences through their writing."
Bruce Mason and Bella Dicks, The Digital Ethnographer - "A new multi-semiotic ethnography is becoming possible through digital technologies, which will have to develop new ways of ordering academic argumentation and analysis. We argue that finding creative means of assembling narrative sequences will be germane to the 'art' of hyper-authoring for ethnography"
Steve Mizrach, Using computers in qualitative research - "What makes the computer a unique tool for the researcher is its reprogrammability: the only limits are in the hardware, and even that can be improved. Other functions of the computer are in the process of being developed, and this paper will also explore ways in which in the future the computer may become less of a clerk or accountant, and more of an active research assistant. Some day some anthropologists may even come to think of it as a friend."
Luciano Paccagnella, Getting the Seats of Your Pants Dirty: Strategies for Ethnographic Research on Virtual Communities - "CMC scholars are prompted to exploit the possibilities offered by new, powerful, and flexible analytic tools for inexpensively collecting, organizing, and exploring digital data."
Fay Sudweeks and Sheizaf Rafaeli, How Do You Get a Hundred Strangers to Agree: Computer mediated communication and collaboration - "This chapter is an introspective account of the formation and implementation experiences of a large international group of researchers who are using computer-mediated communication to study computer-mediated communication."