totallyatypical:

I am not sure, under initial evaluation of my ideas, if my consideration of ‘Facebook’ as a culture was well-placed intrigue or a mild obsession with what I consider an online microcosm for social interaction. Kirin Narayan, in her article: “How Native is a ‘Native’ Anthropologist?” (1993) put her finger on the problem that I found when deciding to study the ‘society’ of Facebook – when working within a society to which I belong as an anthropologist, could be to attract attention as someone who has a ‘claim to authenticity’. It is true that by the nature of existing on Facebook, I already make up a facet of it’s culture, but as Narayan points out, as an anthropologist, one must separate oneself and look through the eyes of an academic.

 

 

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