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Mary-Helen Ward Supervisor: Prof Judyth Sachs Associate Supervisor: Prof Peter Goodyear

Intersections and Abstractions: When ethnography goes online. Mary-Helen Ward Supervisor: Prof Judyth Sachs Associate Supervisor: Prof Peter Goodyear. To what extent can PhD candidates be sustained in their development as researchers through the use of blogging?. My present task:

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Mary-Helen Ward Supervisor: Prof Judyth Sachs Associate Supervisor: Prof Peter Goodyear

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  1. Intersections and Abstractions:When ethnography goes online Mary-Helen WardSupervisor: Prof Judyth SachsAssociate Supervisor: Prof Peter Goodyear

  2. To what extent can PhD candidates be sustained in their development as researchers through the use of blogging? My present task: • Create a group of ≈ 20 PhD candidates who are prepared to keep web-based diaries (blogs) of their process, and read and comment on each other’s entries • Try and recruit from as wide a range of disciplines and methodologies as possible

  3. How to judge the value of an ethnography? • It makes a substantive contribution. • It has aesthetic merit. • It is reflexive. • It has impact. • It expresses a reality.

  4. “This is a return to narrative as a political act, a minimal ethnography with political teeth. It asks how power is exercised in concrete human relationships. It understands that power means empowerment, the give and take of scarce material resources. It seeks performance texts that tell stories about how humans experience moral community.” (Denzin, 1999)

  5. Online Ethnography • What is the internet? • Space • Time • Performativity

  6. "To be present in cyberspace is to learn how to be embodied there. To be embodied there is to participate. To participate is to know enough about the rules for interaction and movement so that movement and interaction with and within this space is possible. Although this may not be so different than what we experience whenever we enter any strange context, it seems very blatant in cyberspace, perhaps because this process cannot be ignored, and because movement and interaction create embodied presence, not simply accompany it." (Markham 1998)

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