
Professor Rebecca Eynon
Professor of Education, the Internet and Society
Rebecca Eynon's research focuses on learning and the Internet, and the links between digital and social exclusion.
The online environment offers a range of possibilities for people to come together, connect and interact online; and as more and more people participate in online spaces new methodological approaches and techniques have been developed in order for Social Scientists to try to examine and understand the nature and meanings of these interactions. In this three hour workshop students will have the opportunity to discuss and explore the key conceptual and methodological understandings needed to conduct online ethnography and related qualitative approaches.
During this three hour workshop we will:
This half day workshop is designed as an introduction to online ethnography. It is anticipated that you will have a good foundation in traditional social science qualitative methods such as interviews and observation. This course will be most beneficial to those students who already have an idea for their thesis topic and consider online ethnography to be one possible approach or for those who have recently begun their pilot study. Through discussions with the tutors and other students the workshop is designed to provide you with a sound introduction to this approach, assist you in determining if online ethnography is the most appropriate methodological approach for your thesis, help you in refining and developing the focus and techniques you wish to employ in your study and providing you with ways to resolve problems that you have / may encounter whilst in the field.
The workshop is designed as an interactive event, where students are encouraged to come and share their questions, experiences and concerns about the use of this approach for their thesis.
Professor of Education, the Internet and Society
Rebecca Eynon's research focuses on learning and the Internet, and the links between digital and social exclusion.
Senior Fellow
Eric T. Meyer is a Senior Fellow of the Oxford Internet Institute. His research looks at the changing nature of knowledge creation in science, medicine, social science, arts, and humanities as technology is embedded in everyday practices.