Original scientific paper

Have i been in the field? The ethnography of electronic correspondence

Iva Pleše orcid.org/0000-0003-1466-9461 ; Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The author examines the possibilities of defining her own research of electronic correspondence as fieldwork, and describes and interprets certain aspects and stages of that research. She deals with two connected aspects of fieldwork research: the issue of physical groundedness of the field and the issue of her relationship with "the subjects of the research" – placing them in a context of researching an Internet topic, email.

Keywords

fieldwork; the Internet; autoethnography

Hrčak ID:

2923

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/2923

Publication date:

5.6.2005.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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