Session Information
19 SES 09 B, Virtual Ethnography: Possibilities, Issues and Problems
Symposium
Contribution
The study of web based technologies changes represent a methodological challenge for traditional ethnographic research since it questions the notion of locality (Hine, 2000; Wittel, 200). In order to address this challenge, a set of research strategies has been proposed: 'virtual ethnography' (Hine, 2000), 'cyber-ethnographies (Teli, Pisanu, Hakken, 2007)', or 'multi-sited ethnographies' (Hine, 2007). The paper will propose some emerging considerations by analysing the similarities and the differences among those possible alternatives. Expected Outcomes/results The paper will argue in favour of embracing a multi-sited approach to ethnography (Marcus, 1995, 1998; Hine, 2007) revisited by STS tradition (Sorensen, 2009; Landri, Serpieri, 2004) in order to describe the transformation of the culture of education in university as they become more and in more involved in dense and web based technological devices. The paper will support those statements by drawing on the first results from the starting multi-sited ethnography of the digital formation named 'Federica', the website of the largest university of south of Italy, with examples of its fabrication and use in the most successful courses.
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