Saturday, 12 January 2008

Digital Ethnography

While gently scrolling through chem-blah-ics I came across a link to another blog, that I thought was very interesting. It is called: Digital Ethnography and reports the thoughts/findings of a working group of students and faculty at Kansas State University.

What is ethnography anyway?

This what the wikipedia entry says: "Ethnography (ἔθνος ethnos = people and γράφειν graphein = writing) is the genre of writing that presents varying degrees of qualitative and quantitative descriptions of human social phenomena, based on fieldwork. Ethnography presents the results of a holistic research method founded on the idea that a system's properties cannot necessarily be accurately understood independently of each other."

Here are links to two of the Digital Ethnography groups' effectively produced videos:
“A Vision of Students Today” Transcript
Information R/evolution

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