Posts by Elizabeth F. Churchill

Abstract again – sampled thoughts

Illusory boundaries in the “cyber-sociality” of virtual teams: ethnographic methods, the offline in the online and cautionary tales of business cyber ethnography. Abstract: If cyberspace is “the total interconnectedness of human beings through computers and telecommunication without regard to physical geography” (Gibson, 1984), then cyber-sociality lies in the details of engaging, maintaining and indeed managing… More »

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EPIC 2005 Abstract on sociality #3

Ramblings for an abstract: bits will come from here Illusory boundaries in the “cyber-sociality” of virtual teams: ethnographic methods, the offline in the online and cautionary tales of business cyber ethnography. Abstract: If cyberspace is “the total interconnectedness of human beings through computers and telecommunication without regard to physical geography” (Gibson, 1984), then cyber-sociality lies… More »

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Modes of organization in mediated sociality, EPIC 2005 Abstract draft

EPIC Abstract; Submission for Methods/Case Studies Paper (10 pages) Title: Modes of organization in mediated sociality: ethnographic studies of cyber-sociality and the implications for "virtual teams" Ethnography, or rather the ethnographic stance in observation is a “family” of approaches. These are commonly descriptive accounts with different foci (yielding a plethora of prefixes, e.g., cyber ethnography,… More »

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References for cybersociality paper

** References we have talked about for this paper specifically Hine, C. 2000. Virtual ethnography. London, Thousand Oaks & New Delhi: Sage. ** References I have just dug up (some again) Boym, S. 2001. Nostalgia and global culture: from outer space to cyberspace. In The Future of Nostalgia. New York: Basic Books. Eichhorn, K. 2001.… More »

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