Bella Dicks, Bruce Mason, Amanda Coffey, Paul Atkinson, "Qualitative Research and Hypermedia - Ethnography for the Digital Age" SAGE Publications | ISBN: 0 7619 6097 X | 200 pages | PDF| 1.6 Mb
The everyday social worlds in which qualitative researchers and ethnographers move are pervaded by digital technologies.We are surrounded by music and other sound that is recorded and reproduced by digital means. Music can be downloaded from the internet. Music and speech can be recorded onto minidisks. Digital photography is rapidly displacing film photography for many amateur enthusiasts, as well as for many commercial applications. Digital camcorders are within the price range of many, and recordable DVDs and DVD rewriters are now widely available for today’s PC user. Digital television and radio are increasingly taken-for-granted as everyday technologies. These digital sources of reproduction and representation, coupled with the power of the ordinary desktop or notebook computer, make remarkably powerful and flexible methods available to the average consumer for capturing, storing and distributing information. Qualitative researchers and other social scientists have not been indifferent to these new technologies.The capacity of the internet means that it is increasingly feasible to reach otherwise ‘hard to reach’ people, often on a global basis. Sociologists, anthropologists and other cultural analysts are increasingly documenting the everyday realities of social actors whose social relationships are mediated by and through the internet.The internet has itself created various kinds of ‘virtual community’, who not only exist in ‘cyberspace’ but can be studied via the internet itself. Social movements can be mobilised and studied through such global technologies.The power of digital communication world-wide is itself a potent factor in the processes that social scientists study under the rubric of globalisation.
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