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Dina Mehta, author of the blog Conversations with Dina, points to a ethnographic study on bloggers. She quotes: "The bloggers interviewed say their preference for blogging over a web page because it is more dynamic “the rhythm of frequent, usually bri… more »

Leslie M. Tkach-Kawasaki, University of Tsukuba (Japan), Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies What is your image of Japan? A technologically hip nation of cyber-savvy samurai? A land where culture can be both cute and conformist? In Japanese Cyber… more »

Forum: Qualitative Social Research (FQS) The aim of this article is to discuss the lessons learned from conducting semi-structured interviews online in an ethnographic study that took place in Saudi Arabia during the period 2001-2002. The purpose o… more »

Press Release All participants in the qualitative portion of the study found living without the Internet more difficult than they expected, and in some cases impossible, because the tools and services the Internet offers were firmly ingrained in their… more »

Karen Lee, University of Texas at Austin "Netnography," coined from 'ethnography on the Internet,' is an emerging qualitative research methodology adapting ethnographic research techniques to the study of cultures and communities constructed through t… more »

Marc Erickson, channels.lockergnome.com Ian Condry: "What is this culture of piracy and what is at stake in trying to change it? In this essay, I take an ethnographic look at music file sharing, and compare the situation in the US with Japan. My findi… more »