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Ethnography and Virtual Worlds : A Handbook of Method /
"Ethnography and Virtual Worlds" is the only book of its kind - a concise, comprehensive, and practical guide for students, teachers, designers, and scholars interested in using ethnographic methods to study online virtual worlds, including both game and nongame environments. Written by le...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; CHAPTER 1. WHY THIS HANDBOOK?; 1.1 Beginnings; 1.2 Why ethnographic methods and why virtual worlds?; 1.3 Why a handbook?; 1.4 An orientation to the virtual worlds we studied; CHAPTER 2. THREE BRIEF HISTORIES; 2.1 A brief history of ethnographic methods; 2.2 A brief history of virtual worlds; 2.3 A brief history of research on virtual world cultures; 2.4 The uses of history; CHAPTER 3. TEN MYTHS ABOUT ETHNOGRAPHY; 3.1 Ethnography is unscientific; 3.2 Ethnography is less valid than quantitative research; 3.3 Ethnography is simply anecdotal.
- 3.4 Ethnography is undermined by subjectivity3.5 Ethnography is merely intuitive; 3.6 Ethnography is writing about your personal experience; 3.7 Ethnographers contaminate fieldsites by their very presence; 3.8 Ethnography is the same as grounded theory; 3.9 Ethnography is the same as ethnomethodology; 3.10 Ethnography will become obsolete; CHAPTER 4. RESEARCH DESIGN AND PREPARATION; 4.1 Research questions: emergence, relevance, and personal interest; 4.2 Selecting a group or activity to study; 4.3 Scope of the fieldsite; 4.4 Attending to offline contexts.
- CHAPTER 5. PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION IN VIRTUAL WORLDS5.1 Participant observation in context; 5.2 Participant observation in practice; 5.3 Preparing the researching self; 5.4 Taking care in initiating relationships with informants; 5.5 Making mistakes; 5.6 Taking extensive fieldnotes; 5.7 Keeping data organized; 5.8 Participant observation and ethnographic knowledge; 5.9 The timing and duration of participant observation; 5.10 The experimenting attitude; CHAPTER 6. INTERVIEWS AND VIRTUAL WORLDS RESEARCH; 6.1 The value of interviews in ethnographic research; 6.2 Effective interviewing.
- 6.3 The value of group interviews in ethnographic research6.4 Size, structure, and location for group interviews; 6.5 Transcription; CHAPTER 7. OTHER DATA COLLECTION METHODS FOR VIRTUAL WORLDS RESEARCH; 7.1 Capturing chatlogs; 7.2 Capturing screenshots; 7.3 Capturing video; 7.4 Capturing audio; 7.5 Data collection in other online contexts; 7.6 Historical and archival research; 7.7 Virtual artifacts; 7.8 Offline interviews and participant observation; 7.9 Using quantitative data; CHAPTER 8. ETHICS; 8.1 The principle of care; 8.2 Informed consent; 8.3 Mitigating institutional and legal risk.
- 8.4 Anonymity8.5 Deception; 8.6 Sex and intimacy; 8.7 Doing good and compensation; 8.8 Taking leave; 8.9 Accurate portrayal; CHAPTER 9. HUMAN SUBJECTS CLEARANCE AND INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARDS; 9.1 Institutional Review Boards (IRBs); 9.2 Preparing a protocol for IRB review; 9.3 Working with IRBs; 9.4 Informed consent and anonymity; CHAPTER 10. DATA ANALYSIS; 10.1 Ethnographic data analysis: flexibility and emergence; 10.2 Preliminary reflections while in the field; 10.3 The role of theory in data analysis; 10.4 Beginning data analysis: systematize and thematize.