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Playing Ethnography: A study of emergent behaviour in online games and virtual worlds [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This study concerns itself with the relationship between game design and emergent social behaviour in massively multiplayer online games and virtual worlds.
Pearce, Celia
core   +5 more sources

Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Design Ethnography [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
This open access book describes methods for research on and research through design. It posits that ethnography is an appropriate method for design research because it constantly orients itself, like design projects, towards social realities. In research
Müller, Francis
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Focus groups as ethnography: the case of Prime Ministers’ Chiefs of Staff [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The purpose of this paper is to outline the current state of political and administrative ethnography in political science and public administration before suggesting that focus groups are a useful tool in the study of governing elites.
Rhodes, Roderick AW   +4 more
core   +1 more source

From "being there" to "being ... where?": relocating ethnography [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Purpose: Expands recent discussions of research practice in organizational ethnography through engaging in a reflexive examination of the ethnographer’s situated identity work across different research spaces: academic, personal and the research site ...
Katrina Pritchard, Pritchard, Katrina
core   +1 more source

Placing fandom, studying fans: Modified acafandom in practice

open access: yesTransformative Works and Cultures, 2020
For nearly three decades, the field of fan studies has helped to shift the conversation on fandom from a study of pathological individuals to exploring how groups make use of and transform the contemporary media landscape. Fandom itself is also changing.
Abby Waysdorf
doaj   +1 more source

The new stage of public engagement with science in the digital media environment: citizen science communicators in the discussion of GMOs on Zhihu

open access: yesNew Genetics and Society, 2022
In the digital media environment, public engagement with science around controversial scientific topics such as genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has greatly expanded.
Zheng Yang
doaj   +1 more source

Researching Transgression: Ana as a Youth Subculture in the Age of Digital Ethnography

open access: yesSocieties, 2019
In this paper, we explore the contribution of material and digital ethnography to providing a deeper understanding of youth subcultures. We provide the context by reviewing some of the research carried out by the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (
Nic Crowe, Kate Hoskins
doaj   +1 more source

Inglid ja Inglipesa internetifoorum uue vaimsuse kandjate ja legitimeerijatena [PDF]

open access: yesMäetagused, 2014
The article observes angels as figures important for the contemporary spiritual milieu. The article focuses on an Estonian spiritual Internet forum, The Nest of Angels, and demonstrates how angels help to share virtual social support and create/confirm ...
Marko Uibu
doaj   +1 more source

Gus Baha's online preaching culture in Islam and media ethnography perspectives

open access: yesIBDA': Jurnal Kebudayaan Islam, 2023
Islam in media communication, examining its representation on platforms such as Instagram. The emergence of media ethnography, particularly in the context of digital media, and its relevance in studying diverse cultural artifacts, including Islamic ...
Turhamun Turhamun   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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