My profile: The ethics of virtual ethnography

Emotion, Space and Society

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 15-20

  Driscoll, Catherine ^a   Gregg, Melissa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Community; Ethnography; Intimacy; Online culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953621305     PISSN: 17554586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emospa.2010.01.012     Document Type: Article

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