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Madison D. Soyini: Critical Ethnography. Method, Ethics, and Performance

As someone new to ethnography in general, to virtual ethnography in special, I sought for introduction as well as critical analysis of a qualitative data method. I read a couple of very good books from my library (and finally end buying a few of them) - one of them is Soyini Madison’s Critical Ethnography.
This book [...]

Christine Hine: Virtual Methods: Issues in Social Research on the Internet.

A few weeks ago, I found some time to read through a very comprehensive book about online research methods. Here some of the main ideas / important quotes I took out of the context:

“Online relationships can be highly potent ways of conducting research. Contrary to previous doubts, effective qualitative research relationships can be forged online. [...]