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Researching Transgression: Ana as a Youth Subculture in the Age of Digital Ethnography
Societies, 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
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Placing fandom, studying fans: Modified acafandom in practice
Transformative 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
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Gus Baha's online preaching culture in Islam and media ethnography perspectives
IBDA': 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
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Inglid ja Inglipesa internetifoorum uue vaimsuse kandjate ja legitimeerijatena [PDF]
Mäetagused, 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
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Does context really collapse in social media interaction? [PDF]
, 2020 'Context collapse' (CC) refers to the phenomenon widely debated in social media research, where various audiences convene around single communicative acts in new networked publics, causing confusion and anxiety among social media users.
Blommaert, Jan, Szabla, Malgorzata
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Inside a cultural agency: team ethnography and knowledge exchange [PDF]
, 2015 This article undertakes an auto-critical analysis of the research team's ethnographic study of Cultural Enterprise Office (CEO), a Scottish creative business support agency.
Munro, Ealasaid +2 more
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Edging your bets: advantage play, gambling, crime and victimisation [PDF]
, 2013 Consumerism, industrial development and regulatory liberalisation have underpinned the ascendance of gambling to a mainstream consumption practice. In particular, the online gambling environment has been marketed as a site of ‘safe risks’ where citizens ...
Abbott M +29 more
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Encounters on the social web: Everyday life and emotions online [PDF]
, 2015 Encounters also happen online nowadays and, yes, they are still difficult to describe, even though it is sometimes easier to observe them-and obtain data about them- than in the past.
Beneito Montagut, Roser
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Ambiguity, Oscillation and Disorder: Online Ethnography and the Making of Culture
Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2010 Online life is usually held to present particular problems for ethnography as it is hidden and ambiguous, and boundaries are not clear. However, ethnography and online daily life are similar procedures in which people go about constructing ‘culture’ to ...
Jon Marshall
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The Ethnographic Use of Facebook in Everyday Life [PDF]
, 2016 New social media have become indispensable to people all over the world as platforms for communication, with Facebook being the most popular. Hence, platforms such as Facebook are also becoming crucial tools for ethnographers because much social life now
Abidin C. +29 more
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