The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography

Hjorth, Larissa; Horst, Heather A.; Galloway, Anne; Bell, Genevieve

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“…This field list is growing and not exhaustive (e.g. Hine 2015;Hjorth et al 2017). The process of digital ethnographic research may or may not begin with a formal introduction by the researcher into the field of the research subject community or platform.…”

Section: 'Small' Data: Digital Ethnographymentioning

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Using Social Media as a Source for Understanding Public Perceptions of Archaeology: Research Challenges and Methodological Pitfalls

Richardson¹

2019

Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology

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Digital social science research has had an important impact on the types of methodological approaches to the internet and digital social phenomena, practices and communities. Whilst this paper does not seek to include empirical data, it aims to elaborate further on these debates in digital social research, that is, research on 'life in digital society' (Lindgren 2017: 230), using insights from my own research methods. This paper will firstly consider some methodological pitfalls that could sabotage our digital social archaeology research. It will then discuss the importance of understanding the framework and sources of our data. It will outline the two main methodological approaches I have used in my own empirical research to date -'thick' social media data collection and analysis, and digital ethnography. It will discuss some of the many ethical considerations that must be assessed and implemented when undertaking this type of work. I will argue for a methodological pragmatism when undertaking social research in the fields of archaeology and heritage, although this pragmatism can be applied to any field of social study in the digital world.

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Section: 'Small' Data: Digital Ethnographymentioning

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“…Data can be collected in the form of images, text, film, screenshots of comments and interactions, interviews, and reflective and observational field notes. As new platforms, communities and technologies develop, the data formats will also develop (Kozinets 2015;Hjorth et al 2017).…”

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Using Social Media as a Source for Understanding Public Perceptions of Archaeology: Research Challenges and Methodological Pitfalls

Richardson¹

2019

Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology

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“…In order to do this, our approach is informed by (digital) ethnographic methods (cf. Hjorth et al, 2017;Pink et al, 2016) as tools premised on contextpreservation (Kozinets, 2010). Ethnography -more typically understood as involving researcher's direct participation within a physical setting -has recently been applied to online environments (e.g.…”

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“…Ethnography -more typically understood as involving researcher's direct participation within a physical setting -has recently been applied to online environments (e.g. Chretien et al, 2015;Gehl, 2016;Hjorth et al, 2017;Kulavuz-Onal and Va´squez, 2013). To illustrate the activity, we note that Gehl (2016) conducts a digital ethnography of the Dark Web Social Network, using the network himself, observing and speaking with other users about their practices, and reflecting on the lived experience of ''the intersection between site architecture .…”

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Researching with Twitter timeline data: A demonstration via “everyday” socio-political talk around welfare provision

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Increasingly, social media platforms are understood by researchers to be valuable sites of politically-relevant discussions. However, analyses of social media data are typically undertaken by focusing on 'snapshots' of issues using query-keyword search strategies. This paper develops an alternative, less issue-based, mode of analysing Twitter data. It provides a framework for working qualitatively with longitudinally-oriented Twitter data (user-timelines), and uses an empirical case to consider the value and the challenges of doing so. Exploring how Twitter users place ''everyday'' talk around the sociopolitical issue of UK welfare provision, we draw on digital ethnography and narrative analysis techniques to analyse 25 user-timelines and identify three distinctions in users' practices: users' engagements with welfare as TV entertainment or as a socio-political concern; the degree of sustained engagement with said issues, and; the degree to which users' tweeting practices around welfare were congruent with or in contrast to their other tweets. With this analytic orientation, we demonstrate how a longitudinal analysis of user-timelines provides rich resources that facilitate a more nuanced understanding of user engagement in everyday socio-political discussions online.

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“…See Horst andMiller (2012), introduction to the first edition of the volume Digital Anthropology, which highlights the ways in which digital technologies are imbricated in both socio-cultural worlds and within social theory. See also Hjorth et al (2017) for a survey of contemporary applications and insights from the field of digital ethnography, which highlights the intersections of digital media and social research methods. Manuel Castells has theorised our current time as that of the 'Network Society ' (2000), which has generated new forms of participation such as crowdsourcing (Shirky, 2009), flashmobs (Rheingold, 2003), citizen journalism and participatory media (Fish, 2017), hacking (Coleman, 2012) and open source (Kelty, 2008); see also Barney et al (2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age

2018

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The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography

Cited by 85 publications

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Using Social Media as a Source for Understanding Public Perceptions of Archaeology: Research Challenges and Methodological Pitfalls

Using Social Media as a Source for Understanding Public Perceptions of Archaeology: Research Challenges and Methodological Pitfalls

Researching with Twitter timeline data: A demonstration via “everyday” socio-political talk around welfare provision

Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age

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