FQS 8(3): Virtual Ethnography
Dear All,
I would like to inform you that FQS 8(3) -- "Virtual Ethnography"
(http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/inhalt3-07-e.htm), edited
by Daniel Domínguez, Anne Beaulieu, Adolfo Estalella, Edgar Gómez, Rosie
Read & Bernt Schnettler -- is available online (see
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/rubriken-e.htm for former
issues).
In addition to articles relating to "Virtual Ethnography", FQS 8(3)
provides a number of selected single contributions, contributions
belonging to the FQS Debates "Quality of Qualitative Research" and
"Teaching and Learning Qualitative Research Methods in the Social
Sciences", as well as articles belonging to FQS Reviews and FQS
Conferences.
A. FQS 8(3) "Virtual Ethnography"
B. Conferences and Workshops
C. Links
D. Open Access News
Best regards,
Katja Mruck
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A) FQS 8(3) "Virtual Ethnography"
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/inhalt3-07-e.htm English
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-d/inhalt3-07-d.htm German
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-s/inhalt3-07-s.htm Spanish
Daniel Domínguez (Spain), Anne Beaulieu (The Netherlands), Adolfo
Estalella (Spain), Edgar Gómez (Mexico), Bernt Schnettler (Germany) &
Rosie Read (UK): Virtual Ethnography
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-E1-e.htm
Rubén Arriazu Muñoz (Spain): On New Means or New Forms of Investigation.
A Methodological Proposal for Online Social Investigation through a
Virtual Forum
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-37-e.htm
Blanca Callén, Marcel Balasch, Paz Guarderas, Pamela Gutierrez,
Alejandra León, Marisela Montenegro, Karla Montenegro & Joan Pujol
(Spain): Riereta.net: Epistemic and Political Notes From a
Techno-Activist Ethnography
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-1-e.htm
Adolfo Estalella & Elisenda Ardèvol (Spain): Field Ethics: Towards
Situated Ethics for Ethnographic Research on the Internet
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-2-e.htm
Michaela Fay (UK): Mobile Subjects, Mobile Methods: Doing Virtual
Ethnography in a Feminist Online Network
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-14-e.htm
Heike Mónika Greschke (Germany): Logging into the Field --
Methodological Reflections on Ethnographic Research in a Pluri-Local and
Computer-Mediated Field
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-32-e.htm
Simona Isabella (Italy): Ethnography of Online Role-Playing Games: The
Role of Virtual and Real Contest in the Construction of the Field
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-36-e.htm (will
follow soon)
Kip Jones (UK): How Did I Get to Princess Margaret? (And How Did I Get
Her to the World Wide Web?)
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-3-e.htm
Natalia Rybas & Radhika Gajjala (USA): Developing Cyberethnographic
Research Methods for Understanding Digitally Mediated Identities
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-35-e.htm
Maurizio Teli, Francesco Pisanu (Italy) & David Hakken (USA): The
Internet as a Library-of-People: For a Cyberethnography of Online Groups
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-33-e.htm
Single Contributions
Ronald Hitzler (Germany): Which Way Ahead? A Commentary on Recent
Developments in German-Speaking "Qualitative" Social Research
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-4-e.htm
Steven Keen & Les Todres (UK): Strategies for Disseminating Qualitative
Research Findings: Three Exemplars
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-17-e.htm
Anja Kraus (Germany): A Study of Media Influences on the Learning
Strategies of Students in the First Years of Secondary School by Means
of "Subtexts"
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-11-e.htm
Mark Mason, Oswin Baker & Rebecca Hardy (UK): Drugwatch: Establishing
the Practicality and Feasibility of Using Key Professionals and Illicit
Drug Users to Identify Emerging Drug Tendencies
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-9-e.htm
Nadia Rizzo (Argentina): Gender and Migration: Meanings and Impacts of
the Migratory Experience on the Biographies of Latin American Women in
Germany
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-13-e.htm
Stephannie C. Roy, Guy Faulkner & Sara-Jane Finlay (Canada): Hard or
Soft Searching? Electronic Database Versus Hand Searching in Media Research
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-20-e.htm
Irene Vasilachis de Gialdino (Argentina): Contribution of the
Epistemology of the Known Subject to the Qualitative Study of Poverty
Situations, Identity, and Social Representations
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-6-e.htm
FQS Debate: "Quality of Qualitative Research"
Philipp Mayring (Austria): On Generalization in Qualitatively Oriented
Research
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-26-e.htm
FQS Debate: "Teaching and Learning Qualitative Research Methods in the
Social Sciences"
Britta Stiefel (Germany): The Use of Archived Research Data in the
Training of Qualitative Research Methods -- Concept and Evaluation of a
Pilot Model for Learning that is Closely Linked to Research
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-15-e.htm
FQS Reviews
Claudia Brunner (Austria/Germany): Review, Manuela Boatca, Claudia
Neudecker & Stefan Rinke (Eds.) (2006). Des Fremden Freund, des Fremden
Feind: Fremdverstehen in interdisziplinaerer Perspektive [The Stranger's
Friend, the Stranger's Enemy: Conceiving Foreignness in an
Interdisciplinary Perspective]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-23-e.htm
Andrea D. Buehrmann (Germany): Review, Bettina Voelter, Bettina Dausien,
Helma Lutz & Gabriele Rosenthal (Eds.) (2005). Biographieforschung im
Diskurs [Biographical Research in Discourse]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-22-e.htm
Sascha Demarmels (Switzerland): Review, Katrin Doeveling (2005).
Emotionen -- Medien -- Gemeinschaft. Eine kommunikationssoziologische
Analyse [Emotions -- Media -- Society. A Communication-Sociological
Analysis]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-28-e.htm
Nicola Doering (Germany): Review, Irene Ziehle & Ulrich Haegele (Eds.)
(2004). Fotografien vom Alltag -- Fotografieren als Alltag [Photographs
of Everyday Life -- Taking Photographs in Everyday Life]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-18-e.htm
Birgit Griese (Germany): Review, Birgit Schreiber (2006). Versteckt.
Juedische Kinder im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland und ihr Leben
danach [Hidden. Jewish Children in National Socialist Germany and Their
Lives Afterwards]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-16-e.htm
Peter Hilger (Finland): In Search for Criteria: The State of Qualitative
Media Research. Review Essay: Lothar Mikos & Claudia Wegener (Eds.)
Qualitative Medienforschung. Ein Handbuch [Qualitative Media Research. A
Handbook]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-7-e.htm
Matti Hyvaerinen (Finland): Narrative Contestations. Review Essay:
Michael Bamberg & Molly Andrews (Eds.) (2004). Considering
Counter-Narratives: Narrating, Resisting, Making Sense
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-34-e.htm
Daniela Jauk (Austria): Review, Ralf Bohnsack, Aglaja Przyborski &
Burkhart Schaeffer (Eds.) (2006). Das Gruppendiskussionsverfahren in der
Forschungspraxis [Group Discussions in Research Practise]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-12-e.htm
Gerhard Jost (Austria): Review, Gerhard Niedermair (2005). Patchwork(er)
on Tour. Berufsbiografien von Personalentwicklern [Patchwork(er) on
Tour. Occupational Biographies of Human Resources Managers]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-31-e.htm
Sunil Khanna (USA): Review, Jean McNiff & Jack Whitehead (2006). All You
Need to Know About Action Research
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-8-e.htm
Nina Leonhard (Germany): Memory and Culture -- Notes on the Concept of
"Memory Cultures" Within Cultural Studies. Review Essay: Guenter
Oesterle (Ed.) (2005). Erinnerung, Gedaechtnis, Wissen. Studien zur
kulturwissenschaftlichen Gedaechtnisforschung [Memory and Knowledge.
Studies on Memory from a Cultural Perspective]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-25-e.htm
Marilyn Lichtman (USA): Review, Donald K. Sharpes (2006). Sacred Bull,
Holy Cow: A Cultural Study of Civilization's Most Important Animal
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-24-e.htm
Wolfgang Mack (Germany): Review, Wolfgang R. Koehler (2004).
Personenverstehen. Zur Hermeneutik der Individualitaet [Understanding
Persons. On the Hermeneutics of Individuality]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-30-e.htm
Sebastian Schroeer (Germany): Review, Wilfried Breyvogel (Ed.) (2005).
Einfuehrung in Jugendkulturen. Veganismus und Tattoos [Introduction to
Youth Cultures. Veganism and Tattoos]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-27-e.htm
Julia Simonson (Germany): Review, Sandra Gruner-Domiæ (2005). Latinas in
Deutschland. Eine ethnologische Studie zu Migration, Fremdheit und
Identitaet [Latinas in Germany. An Ethnological Study on Migration,
Foreignness and Identity]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-19-e.htm
Martin Spetsmann-Kunkel (Germany): Review, Zygmunt Bauman (2005).
Verworfenes Leben. Die Ausgegrenzten der Moderne [Wasted Lives:
Modernity and Its Outcasts]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-29-e.htm
FQS Conferences
Flora Cornish (UK), Tania Zittoun (Switzerland) & Alex Gillespie (UK): A
Cultural Psychological Reflection on Collaborative Research. Conference
Essay: ESF Exploratory Workshop on Collaborative Case Studies for a
European Cultural Psychology
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-21-e.htm
Davina Hoeblich (Germany): Conference Report, Auf unsicherem Terrain --
Ethnographische Forschung im Kontext des Bildungs- und Sozialwesens [On
Unfamiliar Terrain -- Ethnographical Research in the Fields of Education
and Social Work]
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-10-e.htm
Paul Wainwright & Frances Rapport (UK): Conference Report, Circles
within Circles -- Qualitative Methodology and the Arts: The Researcher
as Artist
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/3-07/07-3-5-e.htm
B) CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
2-5 December, Faculty of Education, Siauliai University, Siauliai, Lithuania
Conference "Information and Communication Technology in Natural Science
Education"
http://iktgu.projektas.lt/indexen.htm
29 February-1 March 2008
Center for Urban Ethnography, University of Pennsylvania, USA
29th Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum "Going Public with
Ethnography in Education"
http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cue/forum.php
14-17 May 2008, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
4th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry "Ethics, Evidence and
Social Justice"
http://www.icqi.org/
15-16 May 2008, Leuven University, Belgium
CfP Conference "Families, Constructions of Foreignness and Migration in
20th Century Western Europe"
http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/onderzoek/oe/geschiedenis/MoSa/families_migration.htm
9-11 July 2008, Tampere, Finland
2nd International Conference "Qualitative Research on Mental Health"
http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/sospol/qrmh2/
5-8 September 2008, Barcelona, Spain
First ISA Forum of Sociology "Sociological Research and Public Debate"
http://www.isa-sociology.org/barcelona_2008/
See
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/conferences-coming-e.htm
(English) and
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/conferences/conferences-coming-d.htm
(German) for additional Conference Announcements.
C) LINKS
Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies: Request for
Research Proposals on Advanced German and European Studies:
The Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies offers up to
one-year of research support at the Freie Universitaet Berlin. It is
open to scholars in all social science and humanities disciplines,
including historians working on the period since the mid-19th century.
The program accepts applications from U.S. and Canadian nationals or
permanent residents. Applicants for a dissertation fellowship must be
full-time graduate students who have achieved ABD status by the time the
proposed research stay in Berlin begins. Also eligible are U.S. and
Canadian Ph.D.s who have received their doctorates within the past two
calendar years. Deadline: December 1, 2007. For more complete
information and an application form, visit the website.
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~bprogram/
SSRC Eurasia Program: 2008 Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships
Competition:
The Eurasia Program, Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is pleased
to announce its 2008-2009 Title VIII fellowship activities. Eurasia
Program Title VIII Fellowships serve to expand and strengthen the field
of Eurasian studies through the support of research, writing,
advanced-training and curriculum development. All fellowships are
intended to support work on or related to the New States of Eurasia, the
Soviet Union and/or the Russian Empire, regardless of the applicant's
discipline within the social sciences or humanities. Online applications
and supporting materials, including detailed award descriptions and
eligibility criteria, are now available on the SSRC Eurasia Program
website. www.ssrc.org/programs/eurasia/fellowships/index.page
Centre for Narrative Research, Forthcoming Papers and Works in Progress
from CNR Members and Associates
http://www.uel.ac.uk/cnr/forthcom.htm
OPEN CODE 3.4
http://www.umu.se/phmed/epidemi/forskning/open_code.html
Digital Arts & Humanities site launched
http://www.arts-humanities.net/taxonomy/term/10/all
semioticsigns.com
http://www.semioticsigns.com/
D) OPEN ACCESS NEWS
SPARC Open Access Newsletter September 2007
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/09-02-07.htm
The UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is now the 6th of
the 7 UK Research Councils to adopt a Green Open Access Self-Archiving
Mandate
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/288-guid.html
The Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering & Technology:
Proposed Policy for Open Access Deposit
http://www.ircset.ie/consultation_070907.html
The Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche (LIBER) and the
"Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research"
(DRIVER) project collaborate to build the European digital repository
research infrastructure
http://www.libereurope.eu/node/245
Conferences
7-9 October, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
The 3rd International Conference on e-Social Science
http://ess.si.umich.edu/index.htm
21-23 October, Palais des Congrs de Montral, Canada
2007 International Symposium on Wikis: Wikis at Work in the World: Open,
Organic, Participatory Media for the 21st Century
http://www.wikisym.org/ws2007/
Texts
Bailey, Charles W. Jr. : Version 69, Scholarly Electronic Publishing
Bibliography
http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html
Harnad, Stevan: The "Double-Pay"/"Buy-Back" Argument for Open Access is
Invalid
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/290-guid.html
Thomas, Chuck & McDonald, Robert H.: Measuring and Comparing
Participation Patterns in Digital Repositories: Repositories by the
Numbers, Part 1. D-lib Magazine, 13(9/10)
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september07/mcdonald/09mcdonald.html
John Willinsky & Ranjini Mendis: Open access on a zero budget: a case
study of Postcolonial Text. IR 12(3)
http://informationr.net/ir/12-3/paper308.html
Journals/Newsletter
Directory of Open Access Journals:
http://www.doaj.org/
CODATA Data Science Journal, Special Issue: Open Data for Global Science
http://dsj.codataweb.org/special-open-data.htm
Digital Humanities Quarterly, 2
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/
Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management
http://www.ejkm.com/index.htm
First Monday, 12(9)
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_9/
International Journal of Design
http://www.ijdesign.org/ojs/index.php/IJDesign/
Journal of Digital Information
http://journals.tdl.org/jodi
Learned Publishing, October issue
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/alpsp/lp
Police Newsletter
http://www.polizei-newsletter.de/index_english.php
The Graduate Journal of Social Science
http://www.gjss.org/current_issue.shtml
The Research Journal of Social Sciences
http://www.insinet.net/rjss.html
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