Ethnographers typically work on non-situated data. For example, to do an ethnography from Edgeryders, they would copy the relevant posts and comments onto text files, and work on those files. But this is not good stewardship, because the extra work the ethnographer does (adding tags etc.) does not live on in the website database; also, it does not communicate with other data concerning that content (for example, information about the author that might be taken from the user profile).
In the Spot The Future project, I did ethnographic analysis directly on the Edgeryders website, using a prototype software developed by @Matthias and called OpenEthnographer. There are now plans to develop this further. In this session, we demonstrate how to work with OpenEthnographer, discuss how to turn it into a more complete ethnographic software, and what kind or research we will be able to do once it’s done.
Date: 2014-10-24 09:30:00 - 2014-10-24 09:30:00, Europe/Brussels Time.