Sunday, November 7, 2010

Ethnography and New Media Studies to the Rescue!

Hi everyone,

Surprise! I'm blogging about the peer review. Good for you Laura, for taking advantage of this pedagogical experience. I took the other route, and chose the "ethnography" paper, given that we've been talking about ethnography in INF1001 as well this year. I'm actually pretty surprised that no one else who's blogged yet chose to do the same (or at least not that I can tell). Therefore, my only real contribution this week may not interest anyone, but here it is anyways:

"Useful resources: ethnography through the internet" by Giampietro Gobo and Andrea Diotti.

The name pretty much says it all; it's a list (comprehensive or not, I'm not qualified to say) of various journals, archives, famous speeches/interviews, newsletters, and whathaveyou, for doing ethnography through the internet. Not ethnography OF the internet, mind you.

And as a closing remark, I'd like to implore everyone to respect the humble hyphen. As Wheeler's article title (as well as the rest of her article) demonstrates, the hyphen is important. "Ethnography and the Study of New Media-Enabled Change in the Middle East" is clearly a paper about change enabled by new media. What Wheeler actually wrote, "Ethnography and the Study of New Media Enabled Change in the Middle East", reads like a newspaper headline announcing how by the miraculous powers of the academic fields of Ethnography and the Study of New Media, political reform has been brought to the Middle East. Just saying, if it's a character on your phone's slide-out keyboard, it must be important.

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