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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Virtual ethnography"”.
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System Override: A Critical Virtual Ethnography of Women of Color's Digital Praxis in Horizon Worlds
… the sociotechnical architectures of social virtual reality platforms, with a primary focus on Meta’s Horizon Worlds. Employing a critical virtual ethnography grounded in Black feminist and decolonized methodologies, the study draws on immersive observation and thirty in-depth interviews with …
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A Virtual ethnography of the Black Flag Cafe: a forum for people who travel to dangerous places.
… This is a case study that has made use of virtual ethnography and descriptive content analysis to explore the forum and its members. The research has identified four factors which influence the forum members’ decision to travel to a dangerous place: a search for selfactualisation through …
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Barack Obama's rise to power : reinventing political campaigns
… the subtext of Obama's campaign messages and virtual ethnography to analyse the way that information technology was used to further his campaign's goals. The findings suggest that while historic forces, such as economic turbulence and the unpopularity of outgoing President George W Bush, …
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Fursonas : furries, community, and identity online
… interviews, participant observation, auto ethnography, and virtual ethnography, I have sought to understand this aspect of furry identity and sociality through a number of disciplinary lenses. In this thesis, I argue that furry queers fandom through several interrelated processes: severing …
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Destroying Blackness One Body At A Time: Examining The Mediated Representations Of Lynchings Past And Present
… police and vigilante killings. A critical race virtual ethnography was conducted to explore the similarities and differences between historical lynchings and the recent killings of black men in the media. I have outlined that there are many problematic similarities between historical and recent …
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Motivation and socio-cultural sustainability of voluntourism
… the socio-cultural sustainability of a society. Virtual ethnography, observation, and semi-structured interviews were employed in order to collect the research data from Eden Valley – a Canadian First Nation reserve, Global Citizen Network (GCN) – a voluntourism organiser, and voluntourists who …
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Conceptualizing Silk Road as countercultural rebellion
… the members of the discussion forum. Through a virtual ethnography of the SR discussion forum, I qualitatively analyzed the textual data in order to conceptualize SR as what Robert Merton (1938) describes as rebellion and what Howard Becker (1963) refers to as pure deviance. In addition, an …
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An ethnographic analysis of adolescent sexual minority website usage: exploring notions of information seeking and sexual identity development
… a contemporary gay teen website, this five-year virtual ethnography of GLBT (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender) youth demonstrates an understanding of the function of the Internet as an invaluable tool for exploring social and psychological needs while providing anonymity and keeping …
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The Political Power of Diaspora as External Actors in Armed Civil Conflict: Ethnonationalist Conflict-Generated Diaspora Use of Social Media in Transnational Political Engagement in Homeland Conflict: The Case of Rwanda.
… (ICTs), with Rwanda as a case study. Virtual ethnography was chosen as the research methodology to explore the online activities of Rwandan CGD using social media (social networking sites) to form virtual transnational networks for political purposes. Diasporic online formations and …
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Curadoria digital e práticas de multiletramentos laborais
… (Chizzotti, 2006), particularly utilizing virtual ethnography (Hine, 2000; Kozinets, 2014). The research corpus includes transcripts of interviews and participant observations, both conducted through Google Meet, along with records from curators' notebooks and field notes. The analyzed and …
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Why is MySpace the place for friends? : An ethnographic study on the effects of social-networking site use on socialization
… thesis contributes to burgeoning research in virtual ethnography as well as to emerging, yet underrepresented academic research investigating social networking sites use motivations.</p>
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Subjectivity and reflexivity in an 'exemplary' virtual team
This thesis discusses the findings of a 'virtual' ethnography of a 'virtual team' of teleworkers called 'FlexiTeam'. The concept of teleworking refers to workers who use Information and Communication Technologies to work flexibly in time and space. A 'virtual team' is a group of teleworkers …
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Spatio-Temporality and Digital Tourism in UK Industrial UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Sites
… it considers the implications of digital virtualities in the context of four industrial World Cultural Heritage Sites, namely the Blaenavon Industrial Landscape, the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape, the Derwent Valley Mills and the Ironbridge Gorge.<br/><br/>Utilising qualitative …
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Migration and Community Formation: Narratives of Three Generations of Women Living in A Greek Cypriot Diaspora Community.
… initially involved in the service industry. The ethnography involved narrative interviews; a focus group; a virtual ethnography; participant observations; and the collection of documentation and photographic evidence. Drawing upon the theoretical concept of social capital, this thesis contributes …
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The modern coterie: Fan fiction writers as a community of practice
… at the LiveJournal blog site. Through the use of virtual ethnography, data has been collected over a period of four years for the purpose of exploring the concept of an online coterie community. The data is examined by using the Community of Practice framework to identify the ways in which group …
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In Our Blood: Mapping Narrative Enactments of Leukaemia Online
… of what I know about my disease online, this virtual ethnography triangulates autopathographic narrative with object oriented philosophies to map digital narrative circulations relating to the disease. Observing that key CLL online support sites function as hubs within complex networks …
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First Year Students in a Foreign Fabric: A Triangulation Study on Facebook as a Method of Coping/Adjustment
… and the students’ online presentation, and a virtual ethnography study of students’ Facebook profiles with a focus on how students’ online presentation impacts their everyday lives on campus.</p><p>The dissertation concludes with an analysis of the functionality of Facebook and places that …
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Occasional Groups in Crowdsourcing Platforms
… in the system. </p><p>The author first employed virtual ethnography over six months to investigate volunteers' interactions and to identify features of the occasional groups in this setting. Most groups were transient, interacting only for a short time to develop one product, but a few worked …
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Exploring Community Creation: Conversations of Young Black Women
… induced travel restrictions, the research used virtual ethnography principles applied to past synchronous one-one-one WhatsApp chats to collect data. Using a Speech Act Analysis on the emojis used in the chats, it was discovered that these play various roles in these conversations, including …
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Uterine time and subjectivities: an ethnographic account of the uterus in online body-talk and other articulations of reproductive justice in South African feminist publics
… during covid-related lockdowns. Methods included virtual ethnography on/via Twitter, an online qualitative survey that was disseminated across my broader Twitter network, an arts-informed feminist workshop engaging with depictions of the uterus in society and popular culture and discussions of …