Comments on: Thinking more about Ethnography https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/kfirth/2015/02/13/thinking-about-ethnography-over-on-research-methods/ Another Education and digital culture 2015 site Mon, 30 Mar 2015 21:05:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: sbayne https://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/kfirth/2015/02/13/thinking-about-ethnography-over-on-research-methods/#comment-169 Fri, 13 Feb 2015 16:32:10 +0000 http://edc15.education.ed.ac.uk/kfirth/?p=248#comment-169 Katherine – I understand this position and I think it reflects much of the debate about what ‘counts’ as ethnography that has gone on in the social sciences in recent years. The kind of ‘pure’ anthropological approach you outline here has been challenged quite a bit in methodological debates – partly, though not entirely, prompted by the rise of ‘virtual’ and internet ethnography. I’d really recommend the transcript of a talk by Martin Hammersley, which beautifully summarises some of the key points of contestation around the term, and asks the question of whether you can even have a ‘virtual ethnography’. He deals really intelligently with some of the issues you have raised:

http://eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/28/1/20.01.05EthnographySeminar-EthnographyProblemsandProspects.doc

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