Semantic Social Networks: A Mixed Methods Approach to Digital Ethnography

We propose a mixed methods approach to digital ethnographic research. Treating online conversational environments as communities that ethnographers engage with as in traditional fieldwork, we represent those conversations and the codes made by researchers thereon in network form. We call these netwo...

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Published in:Field methods 2020-08, Vol.32 (3), p.274-290
Main Authors: Cottica, Alberto, Hassoun, Amelia, Manca, Marco, Vallet, Jason, Melançon, Guy
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Computer Mediated Communication
Computer Science
Conversation
Ethnography
Health Services
Intelligence
Internet
Interpersonal Relationship
Mixed Methods Research
Research methodology
Semantics
Social and Information Networks
Social interaction
Social Networks
Social Services
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Ethnography
Health Services
Intelligence
Internet
Interpersonal Relationship
Mixed Methods Research
Research methodology
Semantics
Social and Information Networks
Social interaction
Social Networks
Social Services
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