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This essay explores the ways in which ethnography, both as a methodology and a product of research, has adapted to the rapid growth of digital technology and the new venues for research that it has spawned. On the one hand, digital technology affords social scientists new means of recording, storing, and analyzing data. On the other hand, digital media have been responsible for the creation of new venues for research, mostly on the Internet in the form of websites, blogs, social networks, and multiplayer online games. As a methodology, ethnography, with its beginnings in the anthropological study of non-Western societies, has proved to be highly adaptable to the task of making sense of, and giving meaning to, computer-mediated communications in its various forms. This has led to its adoption in the study of online sites by researchers from a number of different disciplines attempting to come to grips with the cultural nuances of digitally formed communities. Ethical problems posed by more powerful forms of surveillance and access to personal information are discussed. The boundaries between public and private domains have become increasingly blurred, resulting in complex issues relating to informed consent. As a product, digital ethnographies allow for nonlineal, hyperlinked presentations that permit new forms of engagement between authors and readers not afforded by traditional published monographs.
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, a writer, a poet and a musician. Ceallaigh's research interests include animal rights activism as a public performance of ethical belief, which is the topic of her dissertation, and creative applications of folkloristic scholarship for storytellers. Her Folklore & Fiction podcast, "where folklore scholarship meets storytelling craft", launched in 2021. keywords: podcasting; folklore; contemporary folklore; oral culture; aural culture ak: What is Folklore & Fiction about? cm: The purpose of the podcast originally was, and continues to be, bringing good folklore scholarship to people who are writers, storytellers and creators of various kinds. I thought this would be a really good opportunity to explain, as a folklorist, what a myth is, what a legend is, what a tall tale is, what a fairy tale is. Give it some folkloristic context, talk about what scholars have had to say. There is plenty of useful research for writers in narrative scholarship. I was a writer first and then a scholar: when I started school in 2016, I had already been writing and publishing for about 14 years, and I had put aside my writing career and gone back to school for my doctorate. So I wanted to help creators to write myths that sound like myths, legends that sound like legends. These old patterns resonate with us because we have heard them over and over again already in various versions. I believe as a writer that taking these patterns, the bones of a story, and putting them into something new, perhaps very different or alien, can make your writing more approachable for readers.
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Digital ethnography, an emerging field in ethnography poses questions about the communicative phenomena taking place in a technologically mediated world. Digitized spaces today are where communities of all kinds exist. Experiences of day-to-day realities take place in digitally connected spaces and the storied lives of communities are told through the online sphere. These spaces are where identities are negotiated, cultural practices enacted, and social phenomena of various kinds are manifested, a worthy area for interpretation for ethnographers interested in the tradition of story-telling to understand the social world. The entry discusses digital ethnography and what the process entails, the emergence of the method of inquiry, and the various debates that currently exist regarding the value of conducting ethnography in online spaces. It presents the various issues and contentions digital ethnographers grapple with when identifying their field site for interpretation, and considers various perspectives on the nature of conducting digital ethnography.