Multi-sited ethnography in STS: Capturing global.
Christine Hine compares multi-sited ethnography to Merton’s concept of middle-range theory.The notion of reflexivity has been a mainstay in much of ethnographic research, and particularly educational ethnography. Christine Hine clarifies how the concept of virtual ethnography aims to account for the tension within ethnography when willing to account for the “betweenness” of what is happening between the online and offline fields or within the continuum space of interaction.In Systematics as Cyberscience, Christine Hine explores these questions by examining the developing use of information and communication technology in one discipline, systematics (which focuses on the classification and naming of organisms and exploration of evolutionary relationships). Her sociological study of the ways that biologists working in this field have engaged with new technology is.
Virtual ethnography is the term coined by Christine Hine, and it refers to a method that sees online work as only partial and incomplete. I would expect that if you called your online ethnography a virtual ethnography, then you would adhere fairly closely to the research attitudes and practices.Author Christine Hine is Reader in Sociology at the University of Surrey and one of the most widely-recognized scholars of science and technology studies currently active in the field. She has published widely on allied research methodology, including books such as Virtual Ethnography (Sage, 2000) and The Internet: Understanding Qualitative Research (OUP, 2012).
Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference Proceedings; Ethos; . Hine, Christine. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. 212 pp. JENNIFER COOL. University of Southern California. Search for more papers by this author. JENNIFER COOL. University of Southern California. Search for more papers by this author. First published.
