Journal article
Ethnography in a virtual world
Ethnography and education, v 8(2)
01 Jun 2013
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Abstract
This article situates the discussion of virtual ethnography within the larger political/economic changes of twenty-first century consumer capitalism and suggests that increasingly our entire social world is a virtual world and that there were very particular utopian and dystopian framings of virtual community growing out of that history. The article also situates the discussion of virtual ethnography within the anthropological 'crisis of representation' discussion to suggest there are many parallels between the two discussions. These discussions suggest that while ethnographers have recognised that all societies are virtual except, maybe the smallest, new information technologies, and particularly, the Internet create a persistent virtual space that transforms earlier notions of the imagined society. Finally, the article suggests that educational ethnographers are in a position to discuss the new pedagogical issues that arise when attempting to do ethnography in our contemporary virtual world.
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- Title
- Ethnography in a virtual world
- Creators
- Wesley Shumar - Drexel UniversityNora Madison - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Ethnography and education, v 8(2)
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Communication
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000213875100010
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84878786174
- Other Identifier
- 991019167580804721
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