Researching the street through the internet (and vice-versa): theoretical and methodological considerations on an ethnographic itinerary

Researching the street through the internet (and vice-versa): theoretical and methodological considerations on an ethnographic itinerary, written by José Alberto Simões, starts from a particular empirical object, the so-called hip-hop culture, to discuss the main theoretical and methodological problems raised to online observation (especially of an ethnographic nature) and its possible integration with offline observation.

Far from two domains apart, offline and online terrains of observation are intertwined in many ways, not only because its protagonists reproduce most of their offline activities online, but also because the internet is used, in distinct ways, on the elaboration of several hip-hop manifestations offline. It was precisely this back and forth between the street and the internet that the present research intended to grasp. From a practical point of view, this objective guided us to adopting a multiple and multisited strategy of observation, both offline and online.

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ANO

2012

AUTORES

José Alberto Simões

EDITORES

Análise Social