Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Use of Digital Ethnography to Understand Violence

博士论文研究：利用数字民族志来理解暴力

• 批准号: 1029910
• 负责人: Mitchell Duneier
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: Princeton University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1029910&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Use; Digital

SES-1029910Mitchell DuneierJeffrey LanePrinceton UniversityEthnographers strive to capture rich and precise data about the social lives of the groups they study but miss the digital components of contemporary life when they focus squarely on face-to-face participant observation. The daily flow of inner city life, like social life elsewhere, alternates between online and offline spaces, requiring ethnographers to move accordingly to retrieve essential interactions and representations of self that group members display for one another. This dissertation on digital lives of youth crews (sometimes called "gangs") in Harlem, New York advances data collection and data quality in the field of urban ethnography by capturing, integrating, and interpreting what happens in both the physical city and the digital spaces where people concurrently live. The methodological objective is to create a new model for urban ethnography that supplements and synthesizes conventional ethnographic data drawn from face-to-face observation and interaction in a physical field site--fieldnotes and audio recordings--with the multimedia content that comprises social media sites (i.e., a profile, network of friends, and comments or conversations) and conversational bits of text from text messages. The researcher applies these new methodological tools to the substantive and theoretical goal of understanding violence in the digital era. Members of youth crews in Harlem live vast digital lives, communicating online with peers about music, sex, daily life, and, sometimes, violence. When crew members make threats or coordinate confrontations on social media sites like Twitter, these exchanges sometimes result in violence. How violence transpires or is diffused reflects complex processes from the social histories of those involved to how online comments are interpreted by the antagonists as well others watching the interaction, namely monitoring adults like clergy, concerned residents, and police. Broader Impacts. This dissertation research will help us to understand how and why Harlem residents concerned with violence--those perpetrating and responding to violence--engage digital media in the ways they do to find out what is and what is not different about violence in a digital world. The research presents innovative forms of data and data collection techniques, and integrates online and offline data and observation to understand an offline outcome of primary social importance,interpersonal violence.

SES-1029910 Mitchell Duneierjeffrey Laneprinceton UniversityEthergraphter努力捕获有关他们所研究群体的社交生活的丰富而精确的数据，但错过了当代生活的数字组成部分，当时他们将专注于面对面的参与者观察。 城市内部生活的日常流动，例如其他地方的社交生活，在线和离线空间之间交替，要求民族志学家相应地取回群体成员彼此展示的自我的基本互动和自我表示。 纽约在哈林的青年工作人员（有时被称为“帮派”）的数字生活的论文，通过捕获，整合和解释人们同时居住的物理城市和数字空间中发生的事情，通过捕获，整合和解释城市民族志领域的数据收集和数据质量。 The methodological objective is to create a new model for urban ethnography that supplements and synthesizes conventional ethnographic data drawn from face-to-face observation and interaction in a physical field site--fieldnotes and audio recordings--with the multimedia content that comprises social media sites (i.e., a profile, network of friends, and comments or conversations) and conversational bits of text from text messages. 研究人员将这些新的方法论工具应用于理解数字时代暴力行为的实质性和理论目标。 哈林的青年船员的成员过着巨大的数字生活，与同伴在线交流音乐，性爱，日常生活，有时甚至是暴力。 当工作人员在Twitter等社交媒体网站上构成威胁或协调对抗时，这些交流有时会导致暴力。 暴力是如何反映出的复杂过程，从涉及的人的社会历史上，参与者以及其他观看互动的对在线评论的解释方式，即监视像神职人员，有关居民和警察等成年人。 更广泛的影响。 这项论文研究将有助于我们了解哈林居民如何以及为何关心暴力 - 对暴力行为的犯罪和反应 - 以他们的方式来了解数字媒体，以找出数字世界中暴力行为是什么和没有什么不同。 该研究介绍了数据和数据收集技术的创新形式，并整合了在线和离线数据和观察，以了解主要社会重要性，人际关系暴力的离线结果。