Doing ethnography in the pandemic: Reading & Resources
Abidin, C. (2020). Somewhere between here and there. Journal of Digital Social Research, 2(1), 56- 76. Available from: https://jdsr.se/ojs/index.php/jdsr/article/view/20
Airoldi, M. (2018) Ethnography and the digital fields of social media. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 21(6): 661-673.
Arnout, B.A., Abdel Rahman, D.E., Elprince, M., Abada, A.A., & Jasim, K.J. (2020) Ethnographic research method for psychological and medical studies in light of COVID-19 pandemic outbreak: theoretical approach. Journal of Public Affairs https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.2404
Boellstorff, et al. (2012) Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A handbook of method. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Coleman, G. E. (2010) Ethnographic approaches to digital media. Annual Review of Anthropology 39(1), 487-505.
Dalsgaard, S. (2016) The ethnographic use of Facebook in everyday life. Anthropological Forum 26(1): 96-114.
DeHart, M. 2020. Thinking Ethnographically in Pandemic Times. Social Science Research Council. https://items.ssrc.org/covid-19-and-the-social-sciences/social-research-and-insecurity/thinking- ethnographically-in-pandemic-times/
Fine, G.A. & Abramson, C. M. (2020) Ethnography in the Time of COVID-19: Vectors and the Vulnerable. Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa Special Issue https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340680966_Ethnography_in_the_Time_of_COVID- 19_Vectors_and_the_Vulnerable
Forsey, M., Breidenstein, G., Krüger, O. and Roch, A. (2015) Ethnography at a distance: globally mobile parents choosing international schools. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 28(9): 1112 -1128.
Hine, C. (2000). Virtual Ethnography. SAGE Publications.
Hine, C. (2015). Ethnography for the Internet: Embedded, embodied and everyday. Bloomsbury Academic.
Hjorth, L., et al. (Eds.). (2017). The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography. New York: Routledge.
Kavanaugh, P. R., & Maratea, R. J. (2019). Digital ethnography in an age of information warfare: Notes from the field. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 49(1): 3–26. https://doi.org/10.1177/0891241619854123
Kozinets, R. V. (2010). Netnography: Doing ethnographic research online. SAGE.
Latzko-Toth, G., Bonneau, C. & Millette, M. (2017) Small data, thick data: Thickening strategies for trace-based social media research. In L. Sloan & A. Quan-Haase (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods. Sage.
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Lee, S.L. (2020) Now as a Liminal Space, Writing as a Patchwork: Autoethnographic Reflections on the Self in the Middle of the Pandemic. Qualitative Inquiry doi.org/10.1177/1077800420960181
Lehner-Mear, R. (2020). Negotiating the ethics of Netnography: developing an ethical approach to an online study of mother perspectives. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 23(2), 123– 137. http://10.0.4.56/13645579.2019.1634879
Lems, A. (2020) The (Im)possibility of Ethnographic Research during Corona. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. https://www.eth.mpg.de/5478478/news-2020-06-11-01
Lenihan, A., & Kelly-Holmes, H. (2016). Virtual ethnography. In Z. Hua (Ed.), Research Methods in Intercultural Communication: A Practical Guide. John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated.
Markham, A.N., Harris , A. & Luka, M.E. (2020) Massive and Microscopic Sensemaking during COVID- 19 times, Qualitative Inquiry https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800420962477
Mawer, M. (2016). Observational practice in virtual worlds: Revisiting and expanding the methodological discussion. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 19(2): 161–176. http://10.0.4.56/13645579.2014.936738
Mosteanu, O. (2020) Researching everyday life in a time of pandemic. Social Life. http://www.social-life.co/blog/post/researching_everyday_life_in_a_time_of_pandemic/
Murthy, D. (2012). Digital ethnography: An examination of the use of new technologies for social research. In J. Hughes (Ed.), SAGE Internet Research Methods. SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/https://dx-doiorg.ezproxy.lib.uts.edu.au/10.1177/0038038508094565
Nafus, D. and Knox, H. (2019) Ethnography for a data-saturated world. Baltimore, Maryland: Project Muse.
Pacheo-Vega, R. (2020) Fieldwork in the Times of COVID-19: Doing Ethnography During a Pandemic http://www.raulpacheco.org/2020/03/fieldwork-in-the-times-of-covid-19-doing-ethnography- during-a-pandemic/
Pink, S., et al. (2016) Digital Ethnography: Principles and practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Postill, J., & Pink, S. (2012) Social media ethnography: The digital researcher in a messy web. Media International Australia, 145(1): 123-134.
Roy, R., & Uekusa, S. (2020) Collaborative autoethnography: “self-reflection” as a timely alternative research approach during the global pandemic. Qualitative Research Journal https://doi.org/10.1108/QRJ-06-2020-0054
Salmond, A. (2012). Digital subjects, cultural objects: Special Issue introduction. Journal of Material Culture, 17(3): 211–228. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183512453531
Sarkar, S (2020) Of late alarms, long queues, and online attendances: My experiences of COVID time. Qualitative Inquiry. doi.org/10.1177/1077800420960157
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Walton, S. (2018) Remote ethnography, virtual presence: Exploring digital-visual methods for anthropological research on the web. In Costa, C. &Condie, J., (Eds.), Doing Research In and On the Digital: Research methods across fields of inquiry. Oxford: Routledge.
Were, G. (2013). Imaging digital lives. Journal of Material Culture, 18(3): 213–222. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183513489927
Zheng, S. (2020) Quarantine life is stillness and dialogue: A reflective autoethnography during a global pandemic. Qualitative Inquiry doi.org/10.1177/1077800420960170
Resources shared during the community engagement workshop
UCL In-Touch project: https://in-touch-digital.com
On the ethics of access negotiation in online settings: https://aoir.org/ire30/
Massive and Microscopic Sensemaking project website: https://futuremaking.space/project/massive-micro/
NGO report - for inequalities in access, digital literacy, and privacy protection, especially in the context of the pandemic: https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/2020/pandemics-digital-shadow
Stanford University video series on Doing Ethnography Remotely: https://iriss.stanford.edu/doing-ethnography-remotely
Resource of inequalities during Covid: https://livingwithdata.org/resources/doing-qualitative-research-which-addresses-inequalities-in- times-of-social-distancing/
Resources on adapting methods for the pandemic: https://earthlab.uw.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2020/07/uts-adapting-research- methodologies-covid-19-pandemic-resources-researchers-1.pdf
On communication during the pandemic: https://panmemic.hypotheses.org
Deborah Lupton's crowdsourced resource: https://nwssdtpacuk.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/doing-fieldwork-in-a-pandemic2-google-docs.pdf
Collins R. (2020) Social distancing as a critical test of the micro-sociology of solidarity, American Journal of Cultural Sociology 8, 477–497. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41290-020-00120-z
Gerrard, Y. (2020) What’s in a (pseudo)name? Ethical conundrums for the principles of anonymisation in social media research, Qualitative Research 1-17 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1468794120922070
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