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  title info:
    title: Overcoming access issues with online ethnography and the archival turn
    sub title: Walls and cows
  name:
    name part: Ward, Megan
    name part: active 2022
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Case studies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: This case study provides a brief framework for overcoming fieldwork access issues in various social disciplines using methodologies popularized in the history field's "Archival Turn." The research methodologies behind the descriptive and analytic essay, "Walls and Cows: Social Media, Vigilante Vantage, and Political Discourse," display how interdisciplinary methods can be used to gain access to otherwise unavailable subjects. Like all ethnographic practices, these methodologies require rigorous reflexivity, documentation, and embedded observation. Likewise, ethical and safety concerns for both the researcher and the subject are no less applicable, particularly when studying extremist communities like the vigilantes discussed in "Walls and Cows." By applying ethnographic observation and reflexivity to archives and text, historians gain access to temporally "unavailable" subjects and study them with the nuance and embedded nature of an ethnographer. This use of these "Archival Turn" methodologies in online spaces can complement and complete online ethnography, particularly of communities that may be hostile or pose a danger to the researcher, by approaching social media content as an archive that can be studied both traditionally and ethnographically. Considering the access issues faced by junior scholars, the dangers of fieldwork in extremist spaces, and any researchers contending with travel restrictions due to geopolitical or public health events, this methodological framework is valuable for junior and senior researchers across disciplines.
  target audience: specialized
  note: by Megan Ward.
  subject:
    topic: Ethnology
    topic: Research
    topic: Methodology
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Ethnological archives
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Social media
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Ethnologie
    topic: Recherche
    topic: Méthodologie
    genre: Études de cas
  subject:
    topic: Médias sociaux
    genre: Études de cas
  subject:
    topic: Ethnological archives
  subject:
    topic: Ethnology
    topic: Research
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: Social media
  classification: GN345 .W37 2022
  classification: 305.8001
  related item:
    title info:
      title: SAGE research methods: doing research online
  identifier: 9781529601565
  identifier: 1529601568
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: SGPBL
    record creation date: 220207
    record change date: 20240923170239.9
    record identifier: in00005493767
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng