An Interrupted Postcolonial/Feminist Cyberethnography: Complicity and Resistance in the "Cyberfield"

The Latino Cyber-Moral Panic Process in the United States

“…We conducted an online ethnography (Fox & Roberts 1999) also called virtual ethnography (Hine 2000), or cyber-ethnography (Ward 1999;Gajjala 2000Gajjala , 2002 to study our 'virtual communities' (Rheingold 1993). Our online ethnography consisted of online participant observation, field notes and data documentation from various cyber social networks including anti-immigrant and pro-immigrant websites, US government websites, documents and reports about immigration online, blogs and forums (both pro-and anti-immigration), online newspaper articles, forums, Facebook, YouTube, emails and online video hosting since May 2006.…”

Feminist Ethnography in Cyberspace: Imagining Families in the Cloud

“…Fey uncovers how the highly mobile women who participate in this online network find a sense of virtual home amongst the online network. In a different study of a feminist network, Gajjala (2002) attempted to conduct a cyberethnography of a South Asian women's email list that she was herself a member of. The group eventually collectively voted to not allow researchers to study the group, and thus Gajjala's study was halted mid-way, however Gajjala utilizes this experience to suggest methodological considerations for studying such an online community.…”

Transnational Feminism and Communication Studies

“…Although a relatively nascent area of work, the intersectional politics of gender, global technology, and the informational economy is receiving increasing attention across several disciplines including communication studies, given their role in staging new digital borders and boundaries of contemporary modernities. While one (and a more familiar) aspect of this work has focused on examining the possibilities (and limits) of global information/online networks as sites for building international feminist/women's communities and resistance (in communication studies see, Gajjala [2002], Sreberny [1998], among others), another area that is also receiving considerable attention is the outsourcing/ export of hi-tech, information-centered labor and the trans/national implications of that (for e.g., Chakravarty, 2005;Hashmi, 2006;McMillan, 2006;Freeman, 2000;Shome, 2004Shome, , 2006. While scholarship in this area is growing, it is worth discussing Carla Freeman's (2000) influential work here.…”