Notes on methods summarized by Leander
The following partial representation of Leander's overview of approaches to connective ethnography can serve as a quick list of how to frame data, and what in particular to notice about data. I strongly collecting data through several of these perspectives as a way to arrive at a perspective that (eventually) will grow out of the nature of your questions and data.
Hine: Internet as culture AND as artifact; "Internet as socially constructed, indeterminate, and distributed
=>notice correlations among practices, representations, and circumstances of use
=>notice circulation practices
Wakeford: focus on material, symbolic, imagined, and performed spaces
=>attention to connections between technical & performed
Holloway & Valentine: framing of Internet practices/culture/etc so as not to bracket as "separate" from material world
=>notice factors shaping the realization of techno-literate status (how it is influenced by context, individual identity, etc)
=> discursive contstruction of "Internet"
Lam: cross-sectional analyses comparing practices across participants and contexts + attention to ethics (inclusion of non-voluntary participants)
Jones: relationship of online/offlione practices in time and space
=>notice language in context
=> larger, general "life" as feature of "hanging-out"
=>event complex surrounding computer + patterns of online/offline flow
Wilson: political activism
identifies networks, interviews participants, + participant observationof evens
=> notices people, information, $$$, media in terms of flows & circuits
Leander: literacy in relation to space-time + new methods for research
=> notices coordination of talk, bodies & materials
=> attention to labeling practices = by what they DO, characterized in terms of language & purpose
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