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I’ve organized the PDFs into slots for the remaining weeks of the term…up to Week 8. Not sure where we’ll go from there, as it might make more sense to dip into the Diigo list and veer away from PDF/articles. We’ll talk about this in the coming weeks. Also, in addition to the readings listed below be sure to visit any links in the Diigo group tagged for a particular week; while many of the PDFs are a few years old, many of the links and other resources we’re gathering in Diigo are fairly current…

Week 2 (disciplines)

Schienke, Eric. “Who’s Mapping the Mappers?: Ethnographic Research in the Production of Digital Cartography.” In Transforming Spaces. The Topological Turn in Technology Studies, (200). http://www.ifs.tu-darmstadt.de/gradko/Publikationen/transformingspaces.html.

Schrum, L. “Ethical Research in the Information Age: Beginning the Dialog.” Computers in Human Behavior 13, no. 2 (1997): 117–125.

Zhang, M., N. Dholakia, and R. K Kompella. “Ethnographic Alternatives for Dialogic Marketspaces” (2010). PDF here.

Week 3 (technologies)

Beaulieu, Anne. “Mediating Ethnography: Objectivity and the Making of Ethnographies of the Internet.” Social Epistemology 18, no. 2-3 (April 2004): 139-163.

Murthy, D. “Digital Ethnography: An Examination of the Use of New Technologies for Social Research.” Sociology 42, no. 5 (October 1, 2008): 837-855.

Paech, V. “A Method for the Times: a Meditation on Virtual Ethnography Faults and Fortitudes.” (Dec. 2009).

Week 4 (means)

Boellstorf, Tom. “Method and the Virtual: Anecdote, Analogy, and Culture.” Jounal of Virtual Worlds (2009).

Dicks, B, et. al. “Multimodal Ethnography.” Qualitative Research 6, no. 1 (February 1, 2006): 77-96.

Howard, P.N. “Network Ethnography and the Hypermedia Organization: New Media, New Organizations, New Methods.” New Media & Society 4, no. 4 (2002): 550.

Week 5 (domains: where does digital ethnography happen?)

Masten, D.L., and T.M.P. Plowman. “Digital Ethnography: The Next Wave in Understanding the Consumer Experience.” Design Management Journal (Former Series) 14, no. 2 (2003): 75–81.

Domínguez, D., A. Beaulieu, A. Estalella, E. Gómez, B. Schnettler, and R. Read. “Virtual Ethnography.” In Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung/Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 8:3–07, 2007.

Week 6 (people: who does digital ethnography?)

Helsinki Design Lab. “Ethnography Fieldguide”, n.d. link

Flewitt, R. “Bringing Ethnography to a Multimodal Investigation of Early Literacy in a Digital Age.” Qualitative Research 11, no. 3 (2011): 293–310. http://qrj.sagepub.com/content/11/3/293

Whitehead, Tony. “What Is Ethnography? Methodological, Ontological, and Epistemological Attributes”. Ethnographically Informed Community and Cultural Assessment Research Systems (EICCARS) Working Paper Series, March 7, 2004. link

Week 7 (communities: who is digital ethnography done to?)

Skinner, Jonathan. “At the Electronic Evergreen: a Computer-mediated Ethnography of a Newsgroup from the Montserrat Afar”, n.d. link

Coleman, G. “Hacker Politics and Publics.” Public Culture 23, no. 3 65 (2011): 511–516.

Sandercock, L., and G. Attilli. “Digital Ethnography as Planning Praxis: An Experiment with Film as Social Research, Community Engagement and Policy Dialogue.” Planning Theory Practice 11, no.1 (2010): 23-45. link

Week 8 (interpretation/poetics: what (analysis) do we do with digital ethnography materials?)

Week 9 (disseminations: how do we use digital ethnography materials?)

unassigned so far…“Ethnography – Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia”, n.d. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnography.

Whitehead, Tony. “What Is Ethnography? Methodological, Ontological, and Epistemological Attributes”. Ethnographically Informed Community and Cultural Assessment Research Systems (EICCARS) Working Paper Series, March 7, 2004.