Hello, Regarding the discussion, I may precise now that I am looking for an ethnography which could help me to understand the architecture resulting from people conversations.That is, I cannot postulate any " networks of interactions" (network model is not virgin but has a long tradition in military, economical fields!). If it exists, it might be an aspect of my findings but it cannot be part of the method for sure. Rhiannon recalled that an ethnography is not a-normative by nature. Yes but I went to that discipline after post-structuralist overal reevalution while ethnographers were wondering about their own practices... Besides Alexa Färber in http://www.diffusion.ens.fr/index.php?res=conf&idconf=355 suggests to split in two the fieldnotes with both the informers observations and the state of research practices. We may therefore add to the "visual part" a "graph part" where we aknowledge this latter use?? I still think that maps may help us to understand this architecture of signs and marks let by the community.... Regards, Laetitia I add to this mail the reading list that has been exchanged till now. Christensen, N.B. (2003) /Inuit in Cyberspace: Embedding Offline Identities Online/. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press. Correll, S. (1995) The Ethnography of an Electronic Bar. /Journal of Contemporary Ethnography/,/ /24 (3), p.270-299. Hine, C. (2000) /Virtual Ethnography/. London: Sage. Jones, Steve (1998)(ed.) /Doing Internet Research: Critical Issues and Methods for Examining the Net/, ed. S.G. Jones. London: Sage. Mann, C. and Stewart, F. (eds.) (2000) /Internet Communication and Qualitative Research: A Handbook for Researching Online/. London: Sage. Markham, A.N. (2003) The Internet as Research Context. In / Qualitative Research Practice/, eds. C. Seale, J.F. Gubrium, G. Gobo and D. Silverman. London: Sage. Miller, D. and Slater, D. (eds.) (2000) /The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach/. Oxford: Berg. Schaap, F. (2002) /The Words That Took Us There: Ethnography In A Virtual Reality/. Amsterdam: Askant. For interviewing, I would start with this comprehensive volume, if your library has it: Gubrium, Jaber, & Holstein, James (2001). Handbook of Interview Research. London: Sage. Creswell, John (2008). Research Design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed method approaches. London: Sage. Cresswell, John (2006). Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing among five methods. London: Sage. Wittel, A. (2000). Ethnography on the Move: From Field to Net to Internet. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung, 1 (1). Retrieved 08 May 2003 from http://qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-00/1-00wittel-e.htm Burton, L., & Goldsmith, D. (2002). The Medium is the Message: using online focus groups to study online learning. Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium, New Britain, CT, USA, http://www.ctdlc.org/Evaluation/mediumpaper.pdf . Rezabek, R. J. (2000). Online focus groups: Electronic discussions for research. Forum Qualitative: Qualitative Social Research [Online Journal], 1(1), http://qualitative-research.net/fqs. More recently Virtual Ethnography or Netnography or webnography, are performed primarily in the commercial arena, with Puri's Web of Insight as a sort of handbook (available here: http://lk.nielsen.com/documents/WebofInsightsPaperMay07.pdf) http://inthegameworkshop.blogspot.com/ Emerson, Fretz and Shaw (1995). Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (a how-to text) Hammersley and Atkinson (1995). Ethnography. London: Routledge. (both a concept and a practical methods text) Robben and Sluka (eds) (2007). Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. (a great collection of ethnographies, as well as essays about the the problems of ethnographic fieldwork) Anne Beaulieu, "Mediating ethnography: objectivity and the makings of ethnographies on the internet," Social Epistemology 18 (2004): 139-164. Burrell, Jenna. Forthcoming. The Fieldsite as Heterogeneous Network. Field Methods. Leander, Kevin M. and Kelly M. McKim, "Tracing the Everyday 'Sitings' of Adolescents on the Internet: a strategic adaptation of ethnography across online and offline spaces," Education, Communication & Information 3, no. 2 (2003): 211-240. Star, Susan Leigh. 1999. The Ethnography of Infrastructure. American Behavioral Scientist 43, no. 3: 377. <http://www.socialnetresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/ess-chap31_inter...