Developing cyberethnographic research methods for understanding digitally mediated identities

Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Rybas, Natalia ^a   Gajjala, Radhika ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical; Cyberethnography; Epistemology of doing; Identity construction; Social network systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 36048931109     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14385627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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