On 17/6/04 2:00 AM, "air-l-request@aoir.org" <air-l-request@aoir.org> wrote: [snip] Hi Alireza, Sounds like a very interesting paper. I am a little surprised that the two authors you mention weren't enough to keep the reviewers happy. However that is part and parcel of the review process. I haven't kept terribly up to date with the literature on ethnography in cyberspace. One book that you might try and track down is: Markham, A. N. 1998, 'Life Online: Researching Real-Life Experience in Virtual Space', AltaMira, Walnut Creek, CA. I found it a good reflective ethnography and an excellent read. I have just looked at a couple of recent issues of New Media and Society and come across this article: Fernback, J. 2003, 'Legends on the Net: An Examination of Computer-Mediated Communication as a Locus of Oral Culture', New Media & Society, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 29-45. Now whether or not you can get you hands on this before Monday I cannot say. It does ground the research in ethnomethodology though. Another article I have seen referred to in one or two places is Fox, N. and Roberts, C. (1999) 'GPs in Cyberspace: the sociology of a "Virtual Community"', Sociological Review 47(4): 643-71. I haven't seen this so cannot comment on it. Best of luck, Andrew.

Message: 7 Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 09:37:51 -0400 From: "Alireza Doostdar" <alireza@doostdar.com> Subject: [Air-l] question about cyberspace ethnography literature To: <air-l@aoir.org> Message-ID: <000e01c453a7$20104ec0$02fea8c0@ne1.client2.attbi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Dear AoIRs,

I'm in the process of revising a paper I've submitted to the American Anthropologist about blogging in Iran, which I've titled "'The Vulgar Spirit of Blogging': On Language, Culture, and Power in Persian Weblogestan". My ethnographic research consisted in part of maintaining a Persian-language blog where I wrote observations and commentary on a debate that was raging among many Iranian bloggers at the time on "vulgar" linguistic and cultural practices, and where I engaged in conversations with other bloggers. In my paper, I reflect on my methods of drawing attention to my own words on my blog (through hyperlinking, explicitly invoking other people's blog entries, sending trackback pings, making provocative statements, etc) so as to get comments from other people, and I analyze these methods within a larger context of communicative practices by bloggers who write to be noticed and who need to be noticed in order to be read. Based on this and other analyses, I conceptualize blogging (in the Persian language at least) as an emergent speech genre (in the Bakhtinian sense) that draws on various on- and off-line genres of speech.

One of my reviewers has asked that I situate my intensively engaged ethnographic method within a literature of cyberspace ethnography that discusses such engagement (and other methods, like lurking) and the relevant theoretical and ethical issues. I already have several pieces I can use, including Christine Hine's "Virtual Ethnography" and David Hakken's "Cyborgs@Cyberspace?". I would TREMENDOUSLY appreciate pointers on other relevant literature, preferably things I can get my hands on fast, as my revisions are due by Monday!

Thank you in advance,

-Alireza

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