The field site as a network: A strategy for locating ethnographic research

Field Methods

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 181-199

  Burrell, Jenna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyberspace; Ethnography; Imagined spaces; Logistics; Spatiality

Indexed keywords

EID: 67049087692     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: 15523969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X08329699     Document Type: Article

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