Categories

 

May 2013
M T W T F S S
« Sep    
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031  

How do we evaluate a virtual ethnography?

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 Summary

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 [...]

Week 5 – Lifestream commentary

This week I have really used my lifestream to collate sources related to the ethnography project. It has proved invaluable for this purpose because it has been a very busy week workwise, and I haven’t had a great deal of time to do the reading. The lifestream has enabled me to save the links and [...]