e-notes

Ethnographers, by and large, regard online ethnographies with a certain amount of scepticism. Do we not have here a technology like any other, so that we should look at the social materiality that embeds virtual spaces such as multi-user online games, chat rooms and the like, rather than emersing ourselves into those spaces as ethnographers of the virtual? What online ethnographies have begun to establish however is the equivalence of ‘the virtual’ and ‘the social’. This workshop is noteworthy in its interdisciplinarity, bringing scholars from the fields of internet studies, anthropology and social studies.

Virtual Ethnography in Contemporary Social Science
Workshop, Amsterdam, 27-29 September 2006

Posted at : July 5th, 2006 - 3:56 pm
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