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Webnographers: Resources for Virtual Ethnography

Contents 1 The Gist 2 Table of Contents 3 News 4 Editing Pages

The Gist

Cyberanthropology is but a fetal field, far from defined. This website was developed in the interest of providing a central hub for those interested in ethnography of the internet. Created by and for webnographers, its success in contingent on your participation.

Ethnography is not constrained solely to anthropologists, and indeed the barriers that divide the various social sciences are at once arbitrary and collapsible. Any individual interested in the complex social, cultural, and psychological facets of humans relating with and through the internet is encouraged to join in this nascent community.

Table of Contents

Ideas Brainstorm ideas for the future of digital ethnography.	Tools Share resources for conducting webnography.
Library Browse through suggested books and papers pertaining to cyberanthropology, check out the growing collection of videos, find syllabi for courses on virtual ethnography and social media, and peruse the glossary of terms if you're unfamiliar with the intricacies of the social web.	Directory Find researchers, research projects, organizations, and upcoming conferences related to the field, and find great blogs in the blogroll. Please add to this directory!

News

5/28/09: After a deluge of spam, only registered users may edit content (registering is both *free* and *easy*)
4/21/09: Books section updated extensively by Aphilo
4/6/09: Added Undergraduate Students to the Researchers directory.
3/20/09: Added to the Tools section.
2/20/09: Revamped the homepage and the Researchers directory, added extensively to the Papers library.
2/8/09: Organizations section updated extensively.
2/6/09: Added to the Videos library.
2/5/09: Books section updated extensively.
2/2/09: Wiki launched

Editing Pages

Some basic pointers on working with MediaWiki (the software that powers this wiki):
1. To create sub-headers, type '==' before and after the header.
2. Once 4 or more sub-headers have been created on a page, a Table of Contents is automatically created.
3. You are invited to add your personal bio in the Researchers directory, and encouraged to include links to your online web presences and publications.

4. Please also add to the Library and the Directory, and send an email to me, Jenny Ryan, if you have any questions or would like to see something added to the side navigation bar.