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Media practices and the Internet: some reflections through ethnography Elisenda Ardèvol Adolfo Estalella Edgar Gómez-Cruz Begoña Enguix ECREA, Barcelona, November, 2008 Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
From Internet studies to  ethnography of media practices ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
1. Internet as an object of study  ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Theoretical approach Internet as Culture Internet as Cultural Artifact Internet as Media Concepts Cyberspace, virtual life, cyberculture, desembodiment, desterritorialization Online/Offline, embedded in everyday life, locality Convergence of media, everyday life, new media, digital culture Object/Field Text based: Chats, BBS, IRC, Usenet, Newsgroups, MUDs Web based :  Personal pages, Websites, Virtual Worlds Social networks, multimedia objects:  Users Generated Content, Web 2.0  Methodology Qualitative Ethnography Virtual Communities, Computer Mediated Communication, Online Identity, (only) Screen Studies Social ties, identity representation, ‘beyond the screen’ studies, appropriation of technology, virtual ethnography Multimedia ethnography, connective ethnography, network ethnography…
2. A “praxeological” approach ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
A practice is understood as…. ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Following practice approach,  some research questions are: ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
follow the practices!   a )  it allows “to follow the actors” in their everyday practices without conferring them with a priori schemes for the definition of those practices, but aiming to make sense of the practices that they devise and about which they think; b) it introduces the need to incorporate objects to the construction of the social, bringing into consideration their materiality and not only their symbolic dimension.
3. Ethnography of mediation   “ a field site can no longer be seen merely as a geographical location, but rather may be viewed as an intersection between people, practices and shifting terrains, both physical and virtual”  (Strauss, 2000: 171-172)
4.  Examples of ethnographic research on media practices:
Self-producing video practices   Elisenda Ardévol
Self-producing video practices   ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Dating practices among Gays Begonya Enguix
Dating practices among Gays ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Digital Photography Practices Edgar Gómez
Digital Photography Practices ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Live Blogging Adolfo Estalella
Live Blogging ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
4 examples of ethnographic research on mediated practices: ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Thank you!   Gràcies! http://mediacciones.es/

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Towards an ethnography of new media practices: reflections through field experience

  • 1. Media practices and the Internet: some reflections through ethnography Elisenda Ardèvol Adolfo Estalella Edgar Gómez-Cruz Begoña Enguix ECREA, Barcelona, November, 2008 Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
  • 2.
  • 3.
  • 4. Theoretical approach Internet as Culture Internet as Cultural Artifact Internet as Media Concepts Cyberspace, virtual life, cyberculture, desembodiment, desterritorialization Online/Offline, embedded in everyday life, locality Convergence of media, everyday life, new media, digital culture Object/Field Text based: Chats, BBS, IRC, Usenet, Newsgroups, MUDs Web based : Personal pages, Websites, Virtual Worlds Social networks, multimedia objects: Users Generated Content, Web 2.0 Methodology Qualitative Ethnography Virtual Communities, Computer Mediated Communication, Online Identity, (only) Screen Studies Social ties, identity representation, ‘beyond the screen’ studies, appropriation of technology, virtual ethnography Multimedia ethnography, connective ethnography, network ethnography…
  • 5.
  • 6.
  • 7.
  • 8. follow the practices! a ) it allows “to follow the actors” in their everyday practices without conferring them with a priori schemes for the definition of those practices, but aiming to make sense of the practices that they devise and about which they think; b) it introduces the need to incorporate objects to the construction of the social, bringing into consideration their materiality and not only their symbolic dimension.
  • 9. 3. Ethnography of mediation “ a field site can no longer be seen merely as a geographical location, but rather may be viewed as an intersection between people, practices and shifting terrains, both physical and virtual” (Strauss, 2000: 171-172)
  • 10. 4. Examples of ethnographic research on media practices:
  • 11. Self-producing video practices Elisenda Ardévol
  • 12.
  • 13. Dating practices among Gays Begonya Enguix
  • 14.
  • 16.
  • 17. Live Blogging Adolfo Estalella
  • 18.
  • 19.
  • 20. Thank you! Gràcies! http://mediacciones.es/