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Digital family ethnography: Lessons from fieldwork in Australia
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posted on 2019-06-07, 00:00 authored by Monika WinarnitaThis article discusses the opportunities and constraints in using a digital family ethnography for qualitative studies amongst Indonesians in Australia. The frst half of the article highlights the opportunities that online and offine participant observation can provide in terms of understanding family transnational networks. Going beyond an ego-based narrative approach in interviews, digital family ethnography shows how social network analysis and refexivity can bring depth to a study on family by including the researcher’s position vis-à-vis the research participants. The second half of the article discusses challenges in using these combined online and offine methods and how these challenges might be mitigated in future studies. In particular, the article look at problems faced with interviews, multimedia usage, and social media analysis related to the researcher’s background and in working with different age groups. In the transnational family context, social media and electronic communication are critical parts of contemporary ethnographic methodologies, and the discussion thus centres on including online personhood in the research. The study concludes that although digital family ethnography methodologies have limitations, they can be used to account for the transforming relationships that make up family mobility.
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Migration, Mobility, & DisplacementVolume
4Issue
1 - Special Issue : Multimedia, Mobility and the Digital Southeast Asian Family's Polymedia ExperiencesSeason
Spring 2019Pagination
105 - 117Publisher
Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives - University of VictoriaLocation
Victoria, B.C.Publisher DOI
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2369-288XLanguage
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
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