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Digital Urban Ethnography: A Book Review Of The Digital Street, Katherine L. Walters, Enid Truong
Digital Urban Ethnography: A Book Review Of The Digital Street, Katherine L. Walters, Enid Truong
The Qualitative Report
Jeffery Lane explores the social worlds of youth in Harlem during the digital era through his unique approach, digital urban ethnography. Researchers use this ethnographic method to understand how social lives and meanings are co-constructed within digital and physical spaces. The digital and physical do not neatly represent each other but each provides specific ways to engage that both shape and are shaped by youth’s social lives. As novice researchers, we read this work with an eye towards methodological choices and techniques. In particular, we hoped this work would provide us with an understanding of how to conduct research with …