2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Research on methodological fundamentals of cyber ethnography
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19500210
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
情報図書館学・人文社会情報学
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
KIMURA Tadamasa The University of Tokyo, 大学院・総合文化研究科, 准教授 (00278045)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2007 – 2009
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| Keywords | サイバースペース / エスノグラフィー / 情報行動 / ヴァーチュアルエスノグラフィー / 定性・定量融合法(mixed methods) / コミュニケーション生態系 |
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| Research Abstract |
This research aims to develop a qualitative approach to the study of people's activities on and via the information network. There are challenges to conduct such "cyber ethnography." In order to meet them, this research has developed a well-formulated ethnographic procedure based on mixed methods approach. Then, such cyber-ethnographic researches have revealed that online diaries and blogs are intertwined with mobile communications, embedded in the communicative ecology related to each other.
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