Thoughts on blogging as an ethnographic tool

ASCILITE 2006 - The Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 843-852

  Ward, Mary Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Blogs as research tools; Doctoral process; Online ethnography; Research pedagogy

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; BLOGGING; DOCTORAL PROCESS; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; ONLINE ETHNOGRAPHY; ONLINE MEDIUM; PERFORMATIVITY; PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT; RESEARCH TOOLS; SETPOINTS; WEBLOGS;

EDUCATION; RESEARCH; WORLD WIDE WEB;

BLOGS;

EID: 84870934578     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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