Hi Simon, everyone,
I agree with Peter Lugosi's suggestions, which are really useful (thanks!).
Beyond her first methods book, Christine Hine has also edited/written:
Hine, C 2008 'Systematics as Cyberscience: Computers, Change, and
Continuity in Science' Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Hine, C (Ed.) 2005 Virtual Methods: Issues of social research on the
Internet, Oxford & New York, NY: Berg
Hine, C 2002 Cyberscience: and social boundaries: the implications of
laboratory talk on the Internet. Sociological Research Online. 7(2)
http://www.socresonline.org.uk/7/2/hine.html.
Hine also wrote a chapter to which there are responses in:
Markham, A. N. and Baym, N. K. Eds. 2009 Internet Inquiry: Conversations
about Method, Sage: London. (which Peter suggested)
The Association of Internet Researchers have an ethics framework, which
is rather old now but its worth looking at:
http://www.aoir.org/reports/ethics.pdf
Barry Wellman's work is worth looking at (there's a lot there!):
http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/publications/
These may also be useful:
Downey, G. 2006 “Engaging human geography with library/information
studies,” Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 41.
Fielding, N Lee, R and Blank, G (Eds.) 2008 Handbook of Online Research
Methods. Sage.
Holloway, SL & Valentine, G 2002 “Exploring children's identities and
social networks in on-line and off-line worlds” Annals of the
Association of American Geographers 92 (2): pp. 302-319
Holloway, SL & Valentine, G 2001a “Children at home in the wired world:
Reshaping and rethinking home in urban geography”, Urban Geography 22
(6): pp. 562-583
Holloway, SL & Valentine, G 2001b “Placing cyberspace: processes of
Americanization in British children's use of the Internet”, Area 33 (2):
pp. 153-160
Jankowski, N. W & van Selm, M 2005 “Epilogue: Methodological concerns
and innovations in Internet research” in Hine C (Ed.) Virtual Methods:
Issues of social research on the Internet, Oxford & New York, NY: Berg
Larner, W 1999 “Consumers or workers?: restructuring telecommunications
in Aoteroa/New Zealand” in Crang M, Crang P & May J (Eds.) Virtual
Geographies: Bodies, Space and Relations, London: Routledge: pp.63-78
Pritchard, W 1999 “Local and global in cyberspace: the geographical
narratives of US food companies on the Internet”, Area 31 (1): pp. 9-17
Reid, E 1996 ‘Informed consent in the study of on-line communities: A
reflection on the effects of computer-mediated social research’, The
Information Society 12 (2): pp. 169-174
Valentine, G and Holloway, SL 2002 “Cyberkids? Exploring children's
identities and social networks in on-line and off-line worlds”, Annals
of the Association of American Geographers
92 (2): pp. 302-319
Wellman, B & Haythornthwaite, C 2002 (Eds.) The Internet and Everyday
Life, Oxford, Blackwell.
Also, while not explicitly about the internet, this is quite useful:
Comaroff J & Comaroff J (2003) “Ethnography on an awkward scale:
Postcolonial anthropology and the violence of abstraction”, Ethnography
4 (2): pp. 147-179.
Best,
Sam
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Dr Sam Kinsley
Digital Cultures Research Centre
University of the West of England, Bristol
@DCRCUK
http://www.dcrc.org.uk/
@samkinsley
http://www.samkinsley.com/
On 14/03/2012 08:55, Simon Moreton wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Apologies for cross posting.
>
> We are currently searching for literature that considers methods for
> conducting ethnographic/qualitative work online. This includes work on
> ethics, approaches, methodological issues and examples of work that
> engages with online communities, such as chatrooms or discussion fora,
> and social media platforms such as Facebook. If anyone on this list
> could recommend any work on this topic we would be most grateful.
>
> The review is for an AHRC-funded Connecting Communities Scoping Study
> entitled 'Crafting communities: connecting 'online' and 'offline' making
> practices'. The remit of the project is to conduct a literature review
> and fieldwork to explore the relationship between everyday creative
> practices and the use of digital technologies among craft practitioners.
> It also interrogates experiences of connectivity, and how
> (dis)connection affects the contours and experiences of everyday life.
>
> We will compile and circulate a bibliography in due course. Any
> suggestions greatly appreciated!
>
> Best wishes
>
> Dr Simon Moreton, Dr Nicola Thomas, Dr Roberta Comunian, Dr Caroline
> Chapain.
>
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