Blogs as Elusive Ethnographic Texts

Ethnographic demography: the use of ethnographic texts by demographers

Manipulating Same-Sex Desire in Ethnographic Texts

618 JEFFERY P. DENNIS received a master’s degree from Indiana University and taught English and comparative literature in California and Tennessee prior to returning to graduate school. He is currently completing a doctorate in sociology at the State University of New York–Stony Brook, writing his dissertation on communities of desire in the postmodern city. “What is required is a new framework...

Constructing Public Discourse with Ethnographic/SMS "Texts"

We are interested in how individuals and communities develop opinions as they design and use new mobile, public-sphere technologies. We situate our work among new considerations of ethnography, mobile technologies and rhetoric and describe the design and pilot installation of a new technology called TexTales designed to support mobile public discourse. Mobility in the end may supply the means b...

Elusive implementation: an ethnographic study of intersectoral policymaking for health

BACKGROUND For more than 30 years policy action across sectors has been celebrated as a necessary and viable way to affect the social factors impacting on health. In particular intersectoral action on the social determinants of health is considered necessary to address social inequalities in health. However, despite growing support for intersectoral policymaking, implementation remains a challe...

Blogs as “Protected Space”

I report on blogs as a “protected space” within the context of an ethnographic study that examined blogging from a “blogger’seye” view. I discuss the ability of bloggers to control the content of what is “broadcast” in their blogs and how this affects audience perception. I examine the use of blogs as a communicative medium as compared to alternative means of immediate social interaction. I dis...