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Tag Archives: ethnography
Lifestream 7
I spent the whole week 7 in the field, tracking down the connections between people, sites and doings within the chosen community (#eltchat). The idea of connectivity established by the three components appealed to me a lot. While jumping from … Continue reading
Playing at being an ethnographer
Designing the ethnography was a tough task and I spent a lot of time, perhaps too much, preparing for it and then writing it up. Towards the end I felt it grew out of proportions and somehow took over me, … Continue reading
Ethnography
Reasons for my choice This story starts with the reason I have chosen the science bloggers group for this ethnography. I am not a joiner of groups, in fact the only membership I have is with TES, so I did … Continue reading
Mini Digital Ethnographic Study: Diaspora
Introduction Diaspora is a distributed social network running on a collection of open source personal webservers across the Internet. Diaspora is a community of passionate users who control their own data, control who sees it and who can harvest it. … Continue reading
Posted in digital literacy, ELearning and Digital Culture, Social Networks
Tagged diaspora, ethnography
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GA-MMA Virtual Ethnography
My ethnographic study was of the GA-MMA group… the Gerry Anderson Model Makers’ Alliance. The study is at: http://atate.org/mscel/ethno/ Please leave any comments here.
Summary: Week 5
Week five already and I am deep into the groundwork for the digital ethnographic study. I began this week by getting a good understanding of the practices involved in ethnographic research (lifestream 18.10.2011, #2, #3, #4 and #5). I noted … Continue reading
Posted in ELearning and Digital Culture, Miscellaneous Techno Babble
Tagged ethnography, Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, identity
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Ethnographic Studies on GA-MMA
After some discussion with the group and my tutor, Sian, I have chosen to do my ethnographic study on the Gerry Anderson Model Makers’ Alliance (GA-MMA). I did some preparatory work, got some facts and figures together, etc. I started … Continue reading
Finding a community
I know there are lots of online communities out there but I am struggling trying to find a suitable one for my ethnography. I have spent quite a few hours searching, unsuccessfully. Made a start with looking at something I’m … Continue reading