7.3 Very much in progress listy/oultine for chapter 1

 

I am pretty sure this is going to end up being TWO chapters, but I am going to dig in and start writing and I will see where it takes us.  I want to discuss the sample data representations you all will provide in light of discussion set up under the first 3 points.

 

Working book title: Being there in a new media age: Ethnography of digital culture as web text

 

Working chapter title: Immediate lives, mediated cultures, and ethnographic practice  

1.New ethnographies for new times  (lead in + examples of digital ethnography)

documentations of literate lives and practices=articles in Kairos + enculturation, DALN, Transnational lives

Blank’s book with icons

sample research blogs used as ethnography

Dicks’ site for the science museum project

in this book/in this chapter transition

2. New challenges for "Writing” culture in the context of immediate experiences, mediated places, and multimodal representations

 

1) Background:

definitions of ethnography =>ethnographic gaze + focus on representation:

Clifford & Marcus, writing culture; Clifford’s discussion of “experimental” form - Tyler the idea of evocation

Behar & Gordon - role of technology

Austrailia_ Digital ethnography research center
rethinking digital ethnography today http://www.uq.edu.au/mia/2012-issues#145

list of digital ethnographers http://www.edelmandigital.com/2010/12/03/friday-five-leading-digital-ethnographers/

2) demands for new theory and practice with the advent of online commutities

 

documentation of mediated communities: survey piece from sociology (robinson & Schulz, 2009)

+ discussion of changing perspectives of works documenting online communities

pioneering, legitimizing, multimodal => discuss in terms of purpose, focus, ideology, data selection + representation

pioneering = focus on MUDs + identity play; often focused "on the schism between online and offline realities (686)

legitimizing- "underscored the unitiy and cohesiveness between online and offline interaction and identity projects; concerned with "translating offline methodology to online practice"=> insisted on  "continuity between the techniques an analytic frameworks of traditional ethnography and ethnography of social life in online envoriments. . . endorsing a vision of the cyberfield as part of a flow between online and offline realities"
 
multimodal - new ways for "tackling the latest waves of multi-modal mediated communication => "necessity of increased sociological engagement" ; within this wave=> "many cyberethnographers engage in participant observation as active content producers"

multimodal ethnographies are "questioning the viability of traditional modes of dissemination of both results and primary data" 692 => paying increased attention to how "online interaction generates physical co-presence or activities in the offline world"

Pioneering
Turkle 1997

Dibble 1998  Online RPG

 

Legitimizing

Kendall 2002, hanging out in the virtual pub

Schaap 2002  online rpg = MUD as ethnography (?)

 

Multimodal

Horst, 2006  Cell Phone

Taylor, 2006 MOORPG

 

And beyond (written after this article)

Baym, 2010 Cell phone

Boellstorf, 2010 Second life

Blank

MacDougal (ethnographic film) see Hurdley and Dicks p 285)

 

a.  theoretical perspectives on data

i) influence of the machine = Haaken influence of the machine

ii) Multimodality  + analytic perspective

Kress v Pink

Hurdley + Dicks = compromise= presents differences as one of emphasis

*  sensory ethnography obscures constraints of subjectivity from past experiences/cultural discourses (p 284, Hurdley & Dicks)

but see Howes, 284-285 senses cultural/discursive

* semiotics/multimodal - privileges gaze/bookish abstractness,=> looks at rather than living with

BUt- see Kress & L, 2001, always contextual 281-282

iii) definitions of affordances (Pink, Hurdly & Dicks, Kress)

b. practical considerations for collecting data

c. practical considerations for analyzing data

3) Theoretical perspective for our book

a. working the boundaries  (Hurdley & Dicks, 2011; Dicks et al, 2011)

b. representation as interpretation (transcription essay, Bezemer + Mavers)

3.  New horizons for representation

Invoke Iser’s discussion of horizon

1) review discussion of what has been done

2) discussion of what we do in the book

one or two examples from each chapter, cover range off data “types” listed on last post