1. Lauer and Asher emphasize the amount of time that an ethnography takes. What’s the shortest amount of time in which one could do a “valid” ethnography? Would it be possible to do an ethnography-esque assignment with students in any meaningful fashion? (And, hey, what would “valid” mean in this case anyway?)
2. Smith’s piece spends a great deal of time looking at gender. In some of the online-only environments I’m interested in studying, the sheer difficulty of studying gender becomes extreme. After all, in Secondlife, users can say that they are any gender they care to concoct. However, those users may not be of that gender offline…or even on another day! How should these issues be dealt with if someone is doing an online ethnography of such an environment?
3. How could a BGSU-based researcher get HSRB approval for a hybrid ethnography? What about one that was online-only? I’ve heard some interesting tales from fellow researchers both in the US and abroad; how is it handled for us?
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