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Publication Date: 2006
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Ethnography, the Internet, and Youth Culture: Strategies for Examining Social Resistance and "Online-Offline" Relationships
Wilson, Brian
Canadian Journal of Education, v29 n1 p307-328 2006
The integration of traditional (offline and face-to-face) and virtual ethnographic methods can aid researchers interested in developing understandings of relationships between online and offline cultural life, and examining the diffuse and sometimes global character of youth resistance. In constructing this argument, I have used insights from studies on youth activism and the rave subculture. These studies also informed my central theoretical suggestion: that an approach to research underscored by a sensitivity to everyday experiences and the power structures framing these experiences can (still) be a powerful guide for understanding flows and circuits of resistance in Internet-influenced cultures.
Descriptors: Ethnography, Internet, Online Systems, Resistance (Psychology), Social Psychology, Subcultures, Change Strategies, Research Methodology, Correlation, Intermode Differences, Discussion Groups, Evaluation Research, Case Studies, Youth Agencies
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