Ethnography

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Ethnography

Wiki

Ethnography can be defined as the small-scale study of human behavior through "clinical" observation and intersubjective participation.

Digital ethnography

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Digital ethnography is a specific approach to research ‘on online practices and communications, and on offline practices shaped by digitalisation’

Lauren Zentz on Digital Culture in 2018 and 2019

Interview

The Editors

Lauren Zentz

14/12/2018

In this interview Lauren Zentz shares her thoughts about the impact of digital culture, and talks about her hopes for the future. For instance, she hopes that her work will contribute to our understandings of how to conduct sociolinguistic and ethnographic research that accounts for the power and even the ubiquity of the internet in many people’s daily lives.

The politics of crime. Who gets to define what’s illegal?

Column

Paul Mutsaers

01/06/2017

4 minutes to read

The notion of the ethics of illegality enables us to compare policing, security and crime beyond the boundaries of the nation-state. It may help us understand how police and policed across the world deal differently or similarly with law breaking.

Waarom en hoe een etnograaf een wetenschapper is

Article

Jan Blommaert

30/01/2017

8 minutes to read

Etnografie biedt een unieke reality check aan andere wetenschapsbenaderingen, die er dan ook alle baat bij hebben.

#BlackLivesMatter

Paper

Laura Nelissen

08/11/2018

10 minutes to read

Black Lives Matter is a movement known and active all over the world. It all started with the hashtag #blacklivesmatter but now their message is more complex. The constructed message of a movement.