Anabel's E-learning and Digital Cultures site » ethics http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/anabeld part of the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh Sun, 07 Apr 2013 17:56:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Participation in an Ethnography http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/anabeld/2013/02/24/participation-in-ethnography-on-the-internet/ http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/anabeld/2013/02/24/participation-in-ethnography-on-the-internet/#comments Sun, 24 Feb 2013 15:24:51 +0000 Anabel Drought http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/anabeld/?p=211 ALthough Hine suggests (2000) – traditionally ethnographic research develops an understanding through participation he also suggest that one can do more as a lurker online than in real life due to a lack of physical presence. I have become a member but have yet to participate. I have however come across a barrier to too much lurking / searching

I have been on the website for about 4 hours and have thoroughly searched for rules and regulations and postings by the administrators. It finally stopped me from looking further with this error post saying i had “more than the max user connections”

I wonder whether this is something other forums use to stop ethnographers from prying / researching their site? The thing is ……………. all of this information is freely available online without needing to be a member to look at it. I do however need to be a member to use the search option.

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