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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Tied to the worldly work of writing: parent as ethnographer [PDF]
, 2017 Parent narratives have contributed to ethnographic accounts of the lives of autistic children (Kelly, 2005) but there are fewer examples of parents producing their own autoethnographies.
Barrett E +19 more
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Moving between virtual and real worlds: second language learning through massively multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPGs) [PDF]
, 2011 Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) bring players together in a large virtual community. This type of online gaming can serve many purposes such as entertainment, social interaction, information exchange and education and is now an ...
Kongmee, Isara +3 more
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Seeing ethnographically: teaching ethnography as part of CSCW [PDF]
, 2007 While ethnography is an established part of CSCW research, teaching and learning ethnography presents unique and distinct challenges. This paper discusses a study of fieldwork and analysis amongst a group of students learning ethnography as part of a ...
Brown, Barry +4 more
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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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Communiquer, 2019 To what extent can contemporary culture be observed on the internet? This article proposes to analyze the comments on YouTube of ghost hunting videos in a quali-quantitative approach, by mobilizing the theoretical framework of Yuri Lotman’s cultural ...
Fanny Georges
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Exile, return, record : exploring historical narratives and community resistance through participatory filmmaking in 'post-conflict’ Guatemala [PDF]
, 2019 Following previous experiences of violence and forced displacement, ‘the returnees’ from the Guatemalan campesino community ‘Copal AA la Esperanza’ are now defending their territory against the construction of a hydroelectric dam.
Boeykens, Tessa
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