Time, Technology, and the Ethnographic Interview
Location
Room 2057
Format Type
Paper
Start Date
January 2013
End Date
January 2013
Abstract
As ethnographers, we stand with a foot in each of two worlds: that of ordinary people whose oral histories we seek to preserve and a high-tech environment of research tools. Interviewing strangers requires sophistication and skill; teaching “digital natives” to balance their need for instant gratification with the need to cultivate informants can be especially challenging. We suggest strategies for helping young researchers learn to integrate technology in cross-cultural interviewing.
Time, Technology, and the Ethnographic Interview
Room 2057
As ethnographers, we stand with a foot in each of two worlds: that of ordinary people whose oral histories we seek to preserve and a high-tech environment of research tools. Interviewing strangers requires sophistication and skill; teaching “digital natives” to balance their need for instant gratification with the need to cultivate informants can be especially challenging. We suggest strategies for helping young researchers learn to integrate technology in cross-cultural interviewing.
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