Hi Marie, I recommend your student looking into the work of Ellie Rennie <https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?hl=en&user=GzyUwGoAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate> and Kelsie Nabben <https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?hl=en&user=vsPDnMIAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate>, who have taken an ethnographic approach to research within Web3. The following sources may be useful. Ellie Rennie, Michael Zargham, Joshua Tan, Luke Miller, Jonathan Abbott, et al.. Towards a participatory digital ethnography of blockchain governance. Qualitative Inquiry, 2022, 28 (7), pp.837-847. 10.1177/10778004221097056 . hal-03882048 Nabben K (2023) Web3 as ‘self-infrastructuring’: The challenge is how. Big data & society. 10(1): 205395172311590. Nabben K (2023) Cryptoeconomics as governance: an intellectual history from “Crypto Anarchy” to “Cryptoeconomics”. Internet Histories. DOI: 10.1080/24701475.2023.2183643. 1-23. Best wishes Alexia

On 9 Mar 2023, at 2:30 am, Marie Hermanova via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:

Dear colleagues,

I'm writing on behalf of a student of mine, who's working on a digital ethnography project mapping the buying of deeds in the Otherside metaverse. He's interested in the construction of value around NFTs. We have struggled to find interesting theoretical approaches or qualitative studies/examples of qualitative (ideally ethnographic) research in this area. It's not exactly my area of expertise (so I hope I'm explaining the topic correctly), but I'm sure there are people on this list who know more - if you could point me to articles or books that you think are relevant and worth reading and could be an inspiration for the student, I would be very grateful!

best wishes,

Marie

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Heřmanová, M,. M. Skey and T. Thurnell-Read (2022). Cultures of Authenticity <https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/9781801179362>, Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org

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