Tag: online ethnography

• April 29, 2014

  #ethnography: Trends, Traverses and Traditions

  Call for Papers – deadline extended to 1 May 2014 ESA midterm conference, Research Network on Qualitative Research (RN20) #Ethnography, @Amsterdam #August_27-29_2014 http://aissr.uva.nl/ethnography Ethnography is often seen as one of the principal approaches in qualitative methodology in general. The ESA midterm conference for the Research Network on Qualitative research (RN20) will be on trends, traverses and…

• April 5, 2014

  Mobile apps for online qualitative research

  Today I stumbled across this innovative application for online qualitative research. It powers a range of ‘conversation & observation’ activities such one to ones, auto ethnography and group discussions, among others. The application is run by Liveminds and offers a demo request.

• February 14, 2014

  How to do ethnography

  This post aims to explain how to use observation or related methods such as ethnography in social research. Hence the post is divided in three sections. First one aims to answer what does this method mean and come from, second one, what does it make observation different from other methods as in-depth interview or focus…

• May 28, 2013

  Observation and ethnography: what to observe?

  Before moving on to the proper observation, researcher should have prevously selected the setting (where and when) as well as the actions to be documented (e.g. buying process) and a carefully description of the field, concentrating on aspects relevant to research question. Subsequently, researcher or observers hired for such reason will start the fieldwork, i.e.…

• May 27, 2013

  How to use observation method

  This post aims to explain how to use observation or related methods such as ethnography in social research. Hence the post is divided in three sections. First one aims to answer what does this method mean and come from, second one, what does it make observation different from other methods as in-depth interview or focus…