Hi David, Here are some citations that focus on multi-sited research and internet media: Hine, C. (2007). Multi-sited ethnography as a middle range methodology for contemporary STS. *Science, Technology & Human Values*, *32(6),* 652-671. Wilson, S. M., & Peterson, L. C. (2002). The anthropology of online communities. *Annual review of anthropology*, *31,* 449-467. Larsen, J. (2008). Practices and flows of digital photography: An ethnographic framework. *Mobilities*, *3(1)*, 141-160. Charmarkeh, H. (2013). Social Media Usage, Tahriib (Migration), and Settlement among Somali Refugees in France. *Refuge: Canada's journal on refugees*, *29*(1). Aouragh, M. (2008). Everyday resistance on the Internet: The Palestinian context. *Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research*, *1(2),* 109-130. Ostrander, M. (2008). Talking, looking, flying, searching: Information seeking behavior in Second Life. *Library Hi Tech*, *26(4),* 512-524. Gatson, S. N., & Zweerink, A. (2004). Ethnography online: ‘natives’ practicing and inscribing community. *Qualitative Research*, *4(2),* 179-200. Other than that, in my own work on "online homelands" I utilize multi-sited ethnography to follow users within and between different online and offline spaces. Would love to share the work directly with your student. Aya On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 12:26 PM, David Brake <davidbrake@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear all,
I have a grad student who wants to look into this really interesting question in a literature review essay (see below) - I don't know what literatures to suggest to her however - the texts I am familiar with about virtual community all tend to look at them on a single platform. Are there multi-sited ethnographies and other studies examining this you can suggest?
I would like to look at how presence on multiple platforms (eg, Facebook, Twitter, Web, Blog, etc) either strengthens or dilutes a community. This springs off of the discussion you and I had last week about how the platform shapes the community (or not to beat the dead McLuhan horse - how the media shapes the message). I'm curious to examine how the community changes as the platform changes - eg, is it the same community spread across multiple platforms or does each platform represent a distinct community.
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