Ethnography and virtual worlds : a handbook of method (Record no. 69483)
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| fixed length control field | 04296 a2200157 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780691149516 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 305.801 |
| Item number | BOE |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Boellstorff, Tom & Others |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Ethnography and virtual worlds : a handbook of method |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Princeton University press |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | New Jersey |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2012 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xviii,233p. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Contents<br/>Acknowledgments xi<br/>Foreword, by George Marcus xiii<br/>CHAPTER 1. WHY THIS HANDBOOK? 1<br/>1.1 Beginnings 1<br/>1.2 Why ethnographic methods and why virtual worlds? 6<br/>1.3 Why a handbook? 8<br/>1.4 An orientation to the virtual worlds we studied 9<br/>CHAPTER 2. THREE BRIEF HISTORIES 13<br/>2.1 A brief history of ethnographic methods 13<br/>2.2 A brief history of virtual worlds 22<br/>2.3 A brief history of research on virtual world cultures 25<br/>2.4 The uses of history 27<br/>CHAPTER 3. TEN MYTHS ABOUT ETHNOGRAPHY 29<br/>3.1 Ethnography is unscientific 30<br/>3.2 Ethnography is less valid than quantitative research 36<br/>3.3 Ethnography is simply anecdotal 40<br/>3.4 Ethnography is undermined by subjectivity 41<br/>3.5 Ethnography is merely intuitive 42<br/>3.6 Ethnography is writing about your personal experience 43<br/>3.7 Ethnographers contaminate fieldsites by their very presence 44<br/>3.8 Ethnography is the same as grounded theory 45<br/>3.9 Ethnography is the same as ethnomethodology 46<br/>3.10 Ethnography will become obsolete 48<br/>CHAPTER 4. RESEARCH DESIGN AND PREPARATION 52<br/>4.1 Research questions: emergence, relevance, and personal interest 52<br/>4.2 Selecting a group or activity to study 57<br/>4.3 Scope of the fieldsite 59<br/>4.4 Attending to offline contexts 61<br/>CHAPTER 5. PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION IN VIRTUAL WORLDS 65<br/>5.1 Participant observation in context 65<br/>5.2 Participant observation in practice 69<br/>5.3 Preparing the researching self 72<br/>5.4 Taking care in initiating relationships with informants 76<br/>5.5 Making mistakes 79<br/>5.6 Taking extensive fieldnotes 82<br/>5.7 Keeping data organized 85<br/>5.8 Participant observation and ethnographic knowledge 87<br/>5.9 The timing and duration of participant observation 88<br/>5.10 The experimenting attitude 90<br/>CHAPTER 6. INTERVIEWS AND VIRTUAL WORLDS RESEARCH 92<br/>6.1 The value of interviews in ethnographic research 92<br/>6.2 Effective interviewing 94<br/>6.3 The value of group interviews in ethnographic research 104<br/>6.4 Size, structure, and location for group interviews 106<br/>6.5 Transcription 110<br/>CHAPTER 7. OTHER DATA COLLECTION METHODS FOR VIRTUAL WORLDS RESEARCH 113<br/>7.1 Capturing chatlogs 113<br/>7.2 Capturing screenshots 114<br/>7.3 Capturing video 116<br/>7.4 Capturing audio 117<br/>7.5 Data collection in other online contexts 118<br/>7.6 Historical and archival research 120<br/>7.7 Virtual artifacts 121<br/>7.8 Offline interviews and participant observation 124<br/>7.9 Using quantitative data 126<br/>CHAPTER 8. ETHICS 129<br/>8.1 The principle of care 129<br/>8.2 Informed consent 131<br/>8.3 Mitigating institutional and legal risk 135<br/>8.4 Anonymity 136<br/>8.5 Deception 142<br/>8.6 Sex and intimacy 144<br/>8.7 Doing good and compensation 146<br/>8.8 Taking leave 148<br/>8.9 Accurate portrayal 149<br/>CHAPTER 9. HUMAN SUBJECTS CLEARANCE AND INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARDS 151<br/>9.1 Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) 151<br/>9.2 Preparing a protocol for IRB review 153<br/>9.3 Working with IRBs 155<br/>9.4 Informed consent and anonymity 156<br/>CHAPTER 10. DATA ANALYSIS 159<br/>10.1 Ethnographic data analysis: flexibility and emergence 159<br/>10.2 Preliminary reflections while in the field 160<br/>10.3 The role of theory in data analysis 162<br/>10.4 Beginning data analysis: systematize and thematize 164<br/>10.5 Working with participant observation data 168<br/>10.6 Working with individual and group interview data 170<br/>10. 7 Working with images, video, and textual data 172<br/>10.8 The end of the data analysis phase: from themes to narratives and arguments 174<br/>10.9 Generalization and comparison 176<br/>CHAPTER 11. WRITING UP, PRESENTING, AND PUBLISHING ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH 182<br/>11.1 The early stages of writing up: conferences, drafts, blogs 182<br/>11.2 Written genres 185<br/>11.3 Dissemination 186<br/>11.4 The writing process 190<br/>11.5 A quick trip back to the field? 192<br/>11.6 Tone, style, and audience 193<br/>CHAPTER 12. CONCLUSION: ARRIVALS AND NEW DEPARTURES 196<br/>References 201<br/>Index 223<br/> |
| 890 ## - Country | |
| Country | USA |
| 891 ## - Topic | |
| Topic | FD |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Architecture and solar radiation |
| -- | Virtual reality |
| -- | Ethnology--Methodology |
| -- | Ethnology--Research |
| -- | Ethnology--Computer network resources |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Housing |
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