Chapter 7. Doing Fieldwork, BRB: Locating the Field on and with Emerging Media

Kraemer, Jordan

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“…Even those who work in geographically distant places may not leave the field behind. Social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, make it easier to stay in touch, but more difficult to separate the practice of the field from everyday life (Coleman, 2013; Kraemer, 2016). These same factors may encourage transfer of research findings to the field, and collaborative co-production between anthropologists and residents in their field sites (cf.…”

Section: Fields Within Fieldsmentioning

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The field is ever further: In search of the elusive space of fieldwork

Stellmach¹

2020

Ethnography

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This short reflection considers how humanitarian workers conceptualize and practice “the field” as a site of action. Through the use of narrative ethnography, and drawing on comparisons with the practice of academic anthropology, it attempts to draw out disciplinary assumptions that govern how and where humanitarian action is undertaken. It demonstrates how the field is a central imaginary that underpins the principles and performance of both anthropology and humanitarian action. It highlights how the conceptualization of “the field” is itself a methodological tool in the practice of humanitarian intervention.

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Section: Fields Within Fieldsmentioning

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The field is ever further: In search of the elusive space of fieldwork

Stellmach¹

2020

Ethnography

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“…Social media often overlap with mobile platforms, as mobile devices integrate practices such as phone calls and SMS texting with checking email or Facebook. Users can now fit online activities into little gaps throughout the day, thereby stretching and contracting experiences of time (Kraemer, 2016). Social and mobile media make it possible for users to switch rapidly between conversations and contexts.…”

Section: Blurred Boundariesmentioning

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“…The technological devices that we used in our fieldwork became a hybrid space that contained materials and information associated with both fieldwork and "non-fieldwork." Kraemer (2016) argues that "digital communication technologies do not dissolve boundaries between field and home, but they can bring disparate worlds into close proximity" (p. 123). Because of the way we used our technological devices, it was difficult for us to control or stabilize the boundaries between the spheres of "the personal" and "the professional," or those of "work" and "nonwork" (van Doorn, 2013, p. 392), during our fieldwork.…”

Section: The Labor Of Researchmentioning

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Notes on Technology Devices in Research: Negotiating Field Boundaries and Relationships

Mainsah

Prøitz

2019

Qualitative Inquiry

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This article explores the consequences of ethnographic practice when social and mobile media are used both as tools for research and sites of study. We draw on incidents from our fieldwork practice to reflect on the research intimacies that are produced when digital media technologies bring different spheres of researchers’ worlds in close proximity. We show how managing the unstable rhythms and temporal structures of ethnographic fieldwork practice might involve dispensing a considerable amount of affective energy.

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“…It is possible to have two accounts, one for personal use with family and friends and one for research in order to separate private life from research, although many researchers decide against making such a distinction (e.g. Kraemer 2016). Another issue is that by 'befriending' informants on social media one also becomes privy to many different aspects of their life, which is not the case through traditional, non-digital friendships, interviews, and participatory observation (Reich 2015;Sin 2015).…”

Section: Socialization and Intimacies On Wechat: Friending And Sharinmentioning

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The Networked China Researcher

Svensson

2017

Asiascape

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The internet has opened up new possibilities for scholars to gather data and, in general, to stay updated on rapidly changing developments in the Chinese society. Social media has added yet another dimension as it enables researchers to follow events and public debates as they unfold as well as facilitate engagement and interactivity with informants and other contacts. This article is based on the author’s own experiences and discusses the possibilities and challenges of using Chinese social media platforms. It calls for an explicit reflexivity on rapidly changing technologies. The article also addresses the fact that the researcher leaves many digital footprints on the internet and social media, and the advantages and possible dangers in an authoritarian society such as China. The article is written as a reflection piece and a call for more open and systematic discussions on how digital technologies change research practices in and on China.

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Chapter 7. Doing Fieldwork, BRB: Locating the Field on and with Emerging Media

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The field is ever further: In search of the elusive space of fieldwork

The field is ever further: In search of the elusive space of fieldwork

Notes on Technology Devices in Research: Negotiating Field Boundaries and Relationships

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