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I did a talk this weekend just gone at the Dublin Paranormal Conference, where I talked through my virtual ethnography, using prezi.com. Press play. http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=361306D76B332F53 And this is the link to the presentation for you to explore. I’ll try to summarise two or three specific things which relate back to the themes and readings we’ve been looking at [...] Again, my apologies for the late posting of this. Week 6 has seen me ploughing into my chosen subject matter for a virtual ethnography – the 9/11 conspiracy theories. As previously stated, my objective here is not to determine whether the 9/11 conspiracy theories are ‘true’ or not, but rather to determine how members of that [...] Richardson,L. (2000). Evaluating ethnography. Qualitative Inquiry, 6(2), 253-255 Ethnographies, it would seem, are tricky things to evaluate. The following is a list of five criteria found on Wikipedia, quoted from a Richardson paper from 2000: Ethnographic methodology is not usually evaluated in terms of philosophical standpoint (such as positivism and emotionalism), ethnographies nonetheless need to be evaluated [...] Week 5 has been the best so far for me. As I said in a mail to Jen and Sian earlier this week: ‘I studied Anthrpology for a year at Uni (having to drop it after year one to concentrate on other subjects) and I’ve always harboured fantasies about going back to it. In a way [...] I’ve been having a ball this last few days, as our focus moves into Block 2: Communities and our working towards a ‘virtual ethnography’. I haven’t quite decided what community to look at just yet (I’m leaning towards a study of the community of people around the 9/11 Conspiracy Theories) but getting up to speed [...] |
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