December 2010
22 posts
Webnographers →
katychuang:
Wiki Resource for Virtual Ethnography
This website was developed in the interest of providing a central hub for those interested in ethnography of the internet. Created by and for webnographers, its success in contingent on your participation.
Ethnography is not constrained solely to anthropologists, and indeed the barriers that divide the various social sciences are at once...
hauntology: Excerpt from Time Magazine... →
inbedwiththedead:
“But there is another danger, which is that instead of feeling forced to share, we won’t be able to stop ourselves from sharing — that we will willingly, compulsively violate our own privacy. Relationships on Facebook have a seductive, addictive quality that can erode and even replace real-world…
Couldn't rest in peace: Chinese Ghosts Marriages →
bloodisthenewblackk:
A ghost marriage is a marriage in which one or both parties are deceased. Several cultures practice a form of ghost or spirit marriage, but China is probably most famous for its ghost marriage tradition. Ghost marriages are sometimes featured in Chinese films and novels, and occasionally stories…
culturalbytes - Tricia Wang: Ethnography in a... →
culturalbytes:
How can ethnography in a digital world capture culturally embedded practices and discourses that are specific to communities that are no longer place-based? What are the future routes for a field that has been traditionally rooted to a bounded sense of place? How do we identity not only when our field work begins, but
lanthorn said:
Hey Bad Ethnography dudes/dudettes! I’m a cultural anthropology major and I’m starting a series of interviews on tumblr with folks who are involved in motorcycle culture in some way. Builders, photographers, painters, people who just wrench and ride. It isn’t ethnography, but it is culture. If you would like to check ‘em out here’s the link for the...
The Off- Whites: Color in the Classroom →
theoffwhites:
Louis C.K. (via Ta-Nehisi Coates) schools Leno on race relations. Coates brings up an important point in his discussion: as easy as it is to look around in 2010 and feel satisfied with racial progress (not a wise attitude to take, but an easy one), it’s worth remembering that it really was not…
culturalbytes - Tricia Wang: Ethnographic... →
culturalbytes:
I am delighted to read this quote below from Angell & Demetis, 2010, Science’s First Mistake: Misinterpreting Observation, Delusion and Paradox. (thanks webisteme for posting this!)
We cannot even know if reality is consistent with sense data, because we only perceive what…
Unexpected Results →
Unexpected Results is a youtube channel which is the home of the Ordinary People Project. A collection of interviews of random people from Florida to the Arctic Circle.
You think you have a cool article/photo/video... →
Fake Ethnography v. Real Ethnography – Aviva...
16 February 2009
I finally got around to watching and summarizing Dr. Aviva Rosenstein’ presentation “Fake Ethnography vs Real Ethnography“. It’s a good talk. Here are my notes and thoughts on what she has to say.
Aviva at first focuses on what the trendiness and buzz around the word “ethnography.” One example she gives is the Forrester case study on how Wells Fargo used ethnography to ...
