Modes of organization in mediated sociality, EPIC 2005 Abstract draft

Published on Author Elizabeth F. Churchill

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,… Continue reading Modes of organization in mediated sociality, EPIC 2005 Abstract draft

What’s Cyber about CyberEthnography? Notes on Methods for Research on (cyber)Sociality

Published on Author Elizabeth F. Churchill

What’s Cyber about CyberEthnography? Notes on Methods for Research on (cyber)Sociality Abstract: In considering the term “cyber”, one wonders what the prefix could add to the encompassing, entirely worldy word “ethnography”. Ethnography, after all, means to write culture. So, one wonders first what are the rhetorical reasons for the appearance of such a term, prefixed… Continue reading What’s Cyber about CyberEthnography? Notes on Methods for Research on (cyber)Sociality