Getting the Seats of Your Pants Dirty: A Methodology for Ethnographic Research on Virtual Communities.

Paccagnella, Luciano

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ERIC Number: EJ562380

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Publication Date: 1997

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Getting the Seats of Your Pants Dirty: A Methodology for Ethnographic Research on Virtual Communities.

Paccagnella, Luciano

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, v3 n1 Jun 1997

Prompts computer-mediated communication scholars to exploit the possibilities offered by new, powerful, and flexible analytic tools for collecting, organizing, and exploring digital data. Summarizes a case study on an Italian computer conference. Concludes with a short outline of the new graphical computer-mediated communication environments and their consequences for the rise of a multimedia cyber-anthropology. (RS)

Descriptors: Case Studies, Communication Research, Computer Mediated Communication, Data Collection, Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Internet, Research Methodology

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Italy

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