ANTH 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cyber-Ethnography, Ethnography
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One of the debates in virtual ethnography is active versus passive data gathering. Social media platforms-spaces fro activism about racial inequality, state violence, and media representation. Digital ethnography is not a passive data gathering technique but armchair ethnography is passive. Unarmed black teenager michael brown fatally shot by police officer august 9, Sustained protests and documentation across social media platforms. Use a hashtag as a parody of the # - you need to have some understanding of the context to understand the difference. Through the use of social media you are creating a place while also describing it. It is its own type of place that has political commentary. This is a kind of collective place making by a group of people that don"t necessarily share a common goal. Calling attention to inaccurate and unfair media coverage, stereotypes and stigmas of racialized bodies.
