My profile: The ethics of virtual ethnography

Driscoll, Catherine; Gregg, Melissa

doi:10.1016/j.emospa.2010.01.012

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“…Rather, they suggest, we need to 'find a more nuanced way of thinking through the interactions of mediated and physical action, as online and offline interactions are constituted and constructed together to sustain and transform the complex temporalities and spatialities of everyday urban life' (2406). Unfortunately, we found that in much of the literature on online research methods, the virtual-material interface itself was not problematized and the researcher's position was assumed to be largely that of a disembodied, outside observer (Keller and Lee 2003;Driscoll and Gregg 2010;Eichhorn 2001). Unfortunately, we found that in much of the literature on online research methods, the virtual-material interface itself was not problematized and the researcher's position was assumed to be largely that of a disembodied, outside observer (Keller and Lee 2003;Driscoll and Gregg 2010;Eichhorn 2001).…”

Section: Toward a Virtual-materials Positionalitymentioning

confidence: 88%

Feminist research in online spaces

Morrow

Hawkins

Kern

2014

Gender, Place & Culture

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The Internet is growing in popularity as a research site and is often framed as the next frontier in human subjects research. The opportunities the Internet provides for political organizing, making personal experiences more public, and creating spaces for a variety of voices makes it particularly relevant to feminist geographers and researchers such as ourselves. However, many qualitative researchers approach online research as though the Internet simply archives an abundance of data that is 'there for the taking.' Being trained in feminist research methods, we took issue with this approach, yet also encountered challenges when trying to apply feminist practices and ethical perspectives to online research environments. We explore these challenges through a collaborative reflection on our own independent online research experiences. Three themes emerge: (1) interpreting politics and visibility in online spaces, (2) researcher positionality across virtual and material study sites, and (3) subjectivity and power in online research ethics. Reflecting on these themes, we argue that the insights of feminist ethics and a feminist geographical lens are crucial for bringing much-needed reflexivity and reciprocity into online research. Simultaneously, online research opens up exciting new ways of conceptualizing central ideas within feminist research ethics, including politicization, positionality, and power.

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Section: Toward a Virtual-materials Positionalitymentioning

confidence: 88%

Feminist research in online spaces

Morrow

Hawkins

Kern

2014

Gender, Place & Culture

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“…Such experiences suggest that, while social media platforms might offer the potential for mutual recognition, they are structured by a number of significant constraints on the conditions for doing so. In particular our online approach to public engagement was in fact taking place through subtle, ambiguous interrelations between what were notionally perceived as separate public and private spheres (Delli Carpini ; Driscoll and Gregg ; Zimmer ), and across open and ‘proprietary ecologies’ (Donovan ). Thus, it remained an unresolved question among the team as to whether the individual esteem measures embedded in this ‘like economy’ (Gerlitz and Helmond ) might be distorting, obscuring or giving the illusion of mutual recognition, rather than constituting the fundamental social conditions under which mutual recognition might occur (Couldry et al .…”

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Going public? Re‐thinking visibility, ethics and recognition through participatory research praxis

Dickens

Butcher

2016

Trans Inst British Geog

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Recent work in human geography has articulated the principles of an emerging 'participatory ethics'. Yet despite sustained critical examination of the participatory conditions under which geographical knowledge is produced, far less attention has addressed how a participatory ethics might unsettle the conventional ways such knowledge continues to be received, circulated, exchanged and mediated. As such, the uptake of visual methods in participatory research praxis has drawn a range of criticism for assuming visual outputs 'tell their own stories' and that publics might straightforwardly engage with them. In response, this paper develops an argument for adopting an ethical stance that takes a more situated, processual account of the ways participants themselves might convene their own forms of public engagement, and manage their own conditions of becoming visible through the research process. To do so the concept of an ethics of recognition is developed, drawing attention to the inter-and intrasubjective relations that shape the public research encounter, and signalling ways that participants might navigate such conditions in pursuit of their intuitive desire to give an account of themselves to others. This ethical stance is then used to rethink questions of visibility and publicness through the conditions of reception, mediation and exchange that took place during the efforts of a London-based participatory research project to 'go public'. Drawing in particular on the experiences of one of the project participants, we suggest how a processual and contingent understanding of public engagement informed by such an ethics of recognition might be anticipated, approached and enacted.

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“…Interviews are carried out offline in the form of discussion, chat, question and answer and chat with informants as the subject under study (Driskell and Lyon, 2002;Sade-Beck, 2004;Driscoll and Gregg, 2010;Shumar and Madison, 2013;Angelone, 2018). Researchers mainly use chat on WhatsApp to do intensive online interviews.…”

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A Virtual Ethnography Study: The Role of Cultural Radios in Campursari Music Proliferation in East Java

Achmad

Ida

Mustain

2020

ETNOSIA

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Campursari music is a trend on the radio and a favorite of the people of East Java, so it is shifting towards popular culture. This study aims to uncover the proliferation of campursari music and the role of cultural radios. This qualitative research uses a virtual ethnography method, which focuses on the physical presence and virtual text together. The subjects are technology (radio and communication technology on the internet), humans (radio listeners), physical interactions, and virtual interactions. Data collection used participant observation through observation and interviews offline and online in the form of various texts, writings, images, and audiovisuals on Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Youtube. The informants of this study were four cultural experts, namely: Sumadi, Anton Sani, Ibnu Hajar, and Juwono. This study carried out participatory involvement for one year in the virtual world and 30 days living in four cities: Surabaya, Nganjuk, Banyuwangi, and Sumenep. Manthous's campursari music is a fusion of pentatonic and diatonic scales despite the addition of various musical instruments. It has several sub-genres, including campursari janger, campursari kendang-kempul, campursari keroncong dangdut, campursari dangdut Madura, campursari jaranan dangdut, campursari dangdut koplo, campursari dangdut hip-hop, and campursari dangdut acoustic. Cultural programs and campursari music reinforce the reliability of radio to maintain local culture (Javanese, Madura, Using). They are a means of maintaining local identities to stem global culture. No matter how hard the invasion of foreign culture, can not disrupt the local tastes of people. Campursari music proliferation is a modification to traditional music to serve the tastes of the people, to avoid it from extinction. Campursari music must be able to adapt to the current era. The four radio cultures in East Java make campursari music a primary commodity to attract radio listeners and as part of the lives of local people.

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My profile: The ethics of virtual ethnography

Cited by 49 publications

References 6 publications

Feminist research in online spaces

Feminist research in online spaces

Going public? Re‐thinking visibility, ethics and recognition through participatory research praxis

A Virtual Ethnography Study: The Role of Cultural Radios in Campursari Music Proliferation in East Java

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