A cyber-ethnographic foray into GR&T internet photo blogs.

Internet studies are rapidly approaching disciplinary status in academia (Silver 2006: 2). As ethnographers we find Internet cyber-culture(s) and social networking using advancing communication technologies to be provocative and relatively unexplored ethnographic topics. As Romani studies scholars w...

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Publicado en:Romani Studies Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 39 - 71
Autores principales: Nemeth, David J., Gropper, Rena C.
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Publicado: Liverpool University Press / Journals Jun2008
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          Professor of Geography and Planning, University of Toledo, Bancroft Street, Toledo, OH 43614-3390, USA
          Professor Emerita in Anthropology, City University of New York, USA
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        Romanies
        Internet
        Blogs
        Cyberculture
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        cyber-ethnography
        data-dredging
        guestbooks
        Gypsy-Americans (Gypsies, Romanies)
        identity issues
        Internet websites
        self-narratives
        Travelers
        youth photo blogs
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