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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Digital Ethnography"”.
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Cumulative Impact: Digital Ethnography of Environmental Activism in the Mountain View Community
<p>While digital ethnography is a growing genre in communication, there is a salient need to fill the gaps of knowledge concerning health communication using a digital format. Digital ethnography holds the potential of reaching larger audiences, incorporating more stakeholders, and adding …
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ETERNAL SUNSHINE TO THE FAPLESS MASCULINITY:A DIGITAL ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE R/NOFAP COMMUNITY ON REDDIT PROMOTING ABSTENTION FROM PORNOGRAPHY CONSUMPTION AND MASTURBATION.
… examines the NoFap phenomenon, a homosocial digital movement promoting abstinence from pornography and masturbation to overcome self-diagnosed porn addiction and “compulsive sexual behaviors”. Critical literature on the topic has identified heterosexist, patriarchal, and misogynistic …
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Music Culture and the Self-Presentation of Indigenous Musicians on Social Media in Contemporary Taiwan
… identity. In-depth qualitative interviews and digital ethnography were adopted to collect data about indigenous musicians' self-presentation on social media. Being an indigenous musician in postmodern Taiwan is a highly contested phenomenon, as social media offers a double-edged sword requiring …
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Recent experimental electronic music practices in Iran: an ethnographic and sound-based investigation
… agencies. Drawing from the growing traditions of digital ethnography and artistic research, this project doc-uments and analyses the processes, aesthetics, and practices that shape the ‘scene’, while exploring and feeding back to those through sound-based practice. In setting ethnographic study …
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Computing the Social: How Capitalism and Taste Shape Computational Social Science
… computational research. Based on 24 months of digital ethnography of a university laboratory and in-depth interviews with its members, this dissertation makes two arguments. First, it asserts that disciplinary aesthetic orders are significant drivers of computational social scientists’ …
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The UK's Indian Diaspora: Reflections of Hindutva Ideology Online and Offline
… lens the Indian diaspora, and to understand how digital media spaces are used by both the political party and its diaspora supporters in creating nationalistic discourse and an identity solidified within these means. The study will also aim to gain in depth understanding of how these online …
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The Performance of Refugeehood on Social Media in an Era of Superdiversity: A Digital Ethnographic Study of Arab Refugee Identities and Literacies on YouTube
… and activism in a superdiverse setting. Using digital ethnography as a methodology, and drawing upon various theoretical perspectives, including notions from Mikhail Bakhtin, Erving Goffman, and Pierre Bourdieu, the study analyzes YouTube videos by two refugee YouTubers from Syria, who have …
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Little Brother is Watching and Recording You: Social Control in a Deviant Group
… In order to accomplish this, I conducted a digital ethnography with a group engaged in deviant behavior. The group has no formal name, but individuals are known by the deviant act they engage in. The act is referred to as "capping", but is best explained as individuals or a group of …
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Moving to the West: Media, Cultural Transnationalism and Identity. Cultural Dynamics of Korean Women in Diaspora
… interviews, participant observation, and digital ethnography. The study aims to investigate the interplay between media, social values, interactions, and the performance of identities within the Korean female diasporic community in the context of circulation and transnational migration. …
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Canis Obscura: The Social Construction of New Guinea Singing Dogs at the Intersection of Wild and Domestic
… hermeneutics, discourse analysis, multispecies ethnography, digital ethnography, and autoethnography. Across these approaches, this study investigates how beliefs about NGSDs are formed, justified, and enacted in both scientific literature and owner practice, and how categories such as ‘wild’ …
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Tradwives: The Housewifization of the Girl Boss
… roles while simultaneously fueling Alt-Right digital and political movements among young men and women due to isolation. Through digital ethnography and historical analysis, this thesis shows how the tradwife aesthetic flourishes in an attention economy shaped by disillusionment with …
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Biocultural strength: Understanding sex, gender, and performance in Olympic weightlifting
… in Aotearoa New Zealand, including participant ethnography, longitudinal strength tracking with seven women weightlifters, focus groups with 15 women athletes, and interviews with three coaches. To map internationally circulating knowledges, this research draws from interviews with eight elite …
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iPad: A Virtual Studio in my Handbag
… space, through filmmaking, photography, and digital drawing and painting. The practice-based element of this doctorate is interwoven with an investigation of relevant critical theory and is presented as a descriptive analysis of my virtual studio. The research explores the contemporary …
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AFROBEATS ON SOCIAL MEDIA: TRANSNATIONAL FLOWS, INTERCULTURAL FORMATIONS, AND IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION
… of social media practices and Afrobeats on digital socio-cultural processes. Guided by the overall research question: how are digital Afrobeats cultures shaping social interaction on social media?, this research combines a number of techniques and methods to understand Afrobeats’ influence …
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Making the jump: Examining the glocalisation of parkour in Aotearoa New Zealand
… practitioners, participant observations, a digital ethnography on social media, as well as my personal reflections as a parkour practitioner and community insider. I implement three different theoretical perspectives to understanding the glocalisation (Robertson, 1995, 2012) of parkour in …
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Exploring Youth-TEK Linkages in the New Rurality
… how TEK evolves, is held, and shared. Using a digital ethnography approach and inspired by the principles of community-based research, this work, conducted with Indigenous youth from Oaxaca, Mexico, had three main objectives: (i) To identify, map, and classify current youth led TEK projects; …
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Breaking the Bubble: Exploring How Filter Bubbles Shape Critical Thinking in Community College English Composition
… case study examines how engagement with digitally mediated environments, filter bubbles, shapes students critical thinking within First-Year Composition (FYC) courses in a community college. Because writing and research now occur in algorithmically curated spaces, understanding their …
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A practical theology of online and hybrid worship.
… responsible engagement with online worship and digital religious rituals necessitates being aware of historical patterns of how churches have responded to technological innovation, reframing four important concepts, and reimagining community by attending to the specific affordances of online …
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Resisting dominant language and literacy ideologies through family multilingualism and the making of ikhaya
… school in South Africa. Using linguistic ethnography and digital ethnography, I constructed and analysed the case of an isiXhosa speaking mother-child duo as focal participants, who traverse between their township and rural homes, thus challenging Western notions of household arrangement …
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RAP IN EXILE: SYRIAN DIASPORA, HYBRIDITY AND DIGITAL CULTURAL PRODUCTION IN GERMANY
… and political subjectivity through sonic and digital practices. Situated within scholarly debates on diaspora, transnationalism and cultural citizenship, the study contends that rap operates as a pivotal medium through which exiled creators articulate experiences of fragmentation, …
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