http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/publications/netsurfers/netsurfers.pdf - 1 views
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Maya Muñoz-Tobón on 15 May 12An article to revisit the concepts of boundaries of communities
The Vernacular Web of Participatory Media by Robert Glenn Howard - 12 views
This has been in my to-be-read folder for ages. I've started it a few times, but never finished it. While his arguments about the cases confuse me, I found useful his exploration of the potential...
Vliet - 2 views
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A useful article. I pulled out this section: "This confirms the willingness of cultural heritage institutions to start using new media resources and the improvements in accessibility that these new media technologies can offer. This being said, the range currently available leaves one with the distinct impression that it has been developed on an ad hoc basis, with public sentiments perhaps more important than a considered strategy." I wonder how much the development of this media has incorporated general public sentiment as opposed to public input into how they would like the media to look or be used.
Ethnography at Ethnographic Research, Inc. - 4 views
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Interesting use of web... see dishwasher study? and 'Ask Melinda' section
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Too bad... how about this video on Consumer Insights Through Online Ethnography - a dishwasher study instead? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95fwpVSTgDM
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Or, this person's quote-ably "ethnographic" recount of using a washing machine for the first time in college... http://davista4.wordpress.com/sequence-1/
Indigenous Cinema and Visual Language(s) - 8 views
http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2009/05/06/indigenous-cinema-and-visual-languages-why-should-we-be-teaching-these-films I am interested in how several of these films use archival footag...
Public profiles, private parties: digital ethnography, ethics and research in the conte... - 3 views
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I haven't been able to find a free online copy of this yet. It looks very helpful. Has anyone else been able to secure one? The title reminds me of Patrica Lange's piece on YouTube and "publicly private" and "privately pubic" online spaces. Her application of the idea of "fractalized communities" has been very useful to my research on out-of-the-way online communities. Check that one out at http://uolibraries.worldcat.org/title/publicly-private-and-privately-public-social-networking-on-youtube/oclc/726935972&referer=brief_results
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I have not been able to find one either, although I was able to find proof chapters of another two articles in the book.
Murmur - 2 views
http://murmurtoronto.ca/about.php This is an interesting project to think about if you are imaging how to re-present your research to a community you have been working in. I would be interested to ...
Tyler Horan "Ditch the Notebook: Ethnographers' Digital Toolkit" - 4 views
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One perspective on which digital tools are most effective (and practical) for ethnographic fieldwork.
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Pretty convincing post about the potential for using the ubiquitous smartphone and cloud-based tools in ethnographic settings...but there are some assumptions, as well as some breaks with "tradition" (a few obvious, a few not so much...). I've been using my iPhone in a few ways that parallel the systems Horan has developed, and would be happy to explore some of these tools/apps/affordances...
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I agree with some of his techniques, although I still find hand written field notes to be useful. You might be more inclined to write certain things down in the field rather than speak them out loud to be recorded in front of the people you are working with. I also was interested in his section on "local currency." ("Local Currency Whether we want to admit it or not, money talks. Obviously, one should adhere to the local customs regarding the proper use of money in every situation, but spending money can gain you access to areas of life that may otherwise be closed off to you. Generosity in time and money goes a long way, so remember to bring cash to gain access to people and places that you may be unfamiliar with.") This section seems to leave out the fact that spending money in a way which is not culturally appropriate can be as detrimental in certain cases, as it is helpful in other situations.
Digital Storytelling - We jam econo - 3 views
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Here is a link to San Francisco's center for digital storytelling. The website has a digital storytelling cookbook, a basic guide to digital storytelling including interview techniques and basics of final cut express. The following is out of the "overloaded memory bank" section of the cookbook: "construction system to assist us in this process. Images, videos, sounds, and other representations of events from our life can help us to reconstruct more complete memories and therefore expand the repertoire of story that we can put to use." What are the implications for memory, and storytelling, if it is being framed in the context of a more formal recorded digital story.
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and here is the link (http://www.storycenter.org/). There are several videos on the site that might be interesting to check out as well.
A twenty-first century Citizens' POLIS: introducing a democratic experiment in electron... - 1 views
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This article is really dense, bringing in a framework of participatory democratic society into on-line platforms. It is interesting concept but I have not been able to discern what the pilot project "Mobile Phones, Risk and Health" is about. Nonetheless, it poses good questions about who analyzes and constructs the data, the participants or the social scientist?
Digital Ethnography, Practice and Ethics « Luke Freeman - Sydney Digital Mark... - 2 views
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quite robust listing of issues, possibilities, pitfalls, and facets related to research through/on the Internet...as of 2008. No solutions offered nor is there much analysis; a primer with a good bibliography
Methodological Approaches to the Study of Virtual Environments and Online Social Networks - 2 views
http://www.gjss.org/index.php?/Volume-83-December-2011-Methodological-Approaches-to-the-Study-of-Virtual-Environments-and-Online-Social-Networks.html
Queer Zine Archive Project - 6 views
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This is the digital arm of the diy zine archiving project I have been involved with for years. Check out the about section for explanations of collective structure, tools used to build the site, and connection to other diy archives.
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Super cool project, Mara! I like how the mission statement notes that QZAP is a "living history," and that the members are also documenting the history of hardware/software used to create this digital platform where the archived history of these zines lives. (I'm not sure if that last sentence makes sense, but hopefully you know what I mean...)
http://vwbpe12.vwbpe.org/ 5th Annual Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference - 0 views
Some interesting topics listed; looks like video and transcriptions of select presentations will be available soon.
Why we argue about virtual community: a case study of the phish.net fan community. (Art... - 6 views
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Watson, N. "Why We Argue About Virtual Community: a Case Study of the Phish.net Fan Community." Communication Abstracts. 21.5 (1998). Print. This is a fabulous article - old, but solid on the fights about online vs. offline communities. I read it in a Digital Culture class in 2008. I cite it all the time, and would love to go back in light of our discussions in class. This might go well in week seven when we talk about online communities.
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Please do, Mara. I really want to read this. Or I can scan a copy in Knight Ref.
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Here is a link to a pdf I made of my copy. https://docs.google.com/open?id=0ByPQDYtlq5NmUlhYLXlIRHlnVkE Let me know if you would like it shared in another format. Can't wait to discuss this one!
The Smithsonian Latino Virtual Museum (LVM) - 2 views
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The Smithsonian using Second Life to create educational settings and museums. They are recreating real physical places such as Oaxaca, Mexico for people to go and explore cultural expressions of the people from that region of the world. Pretty interesting uses of this virtual reality
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The PLOTS Archive | publiclaboratory.org - 0 views
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This is the parent organization for Map Knitter. They have open data archive, the site serves as a repository for mapping data.
Abstract - SpringerLink - 2 views
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this is all you really need to read (abstract/chapter intro...): New technologies represent a system of constraints and possibilities that constitute the foundation of new rhetorical spaces: the spheres of new communicative and persuasive procedures. Nowadays, urban planning has the chance to critically and rigorously experiment with these new spaces. It has the chance to transgress traditional representational codes and to expand its semantic horizons. This chapter portrays one such challenging exploration: the fecund crossroads between qualitative analytical approaches and digital languages within the planning field. It is a path that embraces diverse dimensions media and messages, analysis and rhetoric, ethics and aesthetics.
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I only read the first 15 pages or so of this chapter through Google Books preview - but - I loved it. It's beautifully written (jargon-y at times, but it's good for the genre). Plus, it works as a manifesto for the kinds digital ethnographies I want to read/experience. The best part for me was the author's focus on "multi -sensory aesthetics" in digital ethnographies. It's worth a block quote: Understanding that reason doesn't produce the totality of our actions, to create real communicative space, and induce peoples to act it is not enough to "tell" rather it is s necessary to transfer energies, make sentiments, and emotions vibrate, awaken latent aspirations, knowledge and enrages, rediscovering the powerful role of artistic and poetic languages. It is necessary to focus on the cognitive and communicative performance of aestehec pleasure, a pleasure that is not an accessory but rather a central moment of very communicative process.
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Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century - 0 views
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This is the article by Henry Jenkins talking about the trends in young generations and their participation in the digital world creation. This article seem relevant because it explores how and why these digital communities are forming, which would give us a better sense of how to study them.
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