Abigail HartinMedia EthnographyInterpreting Mail Order Brides Through MemesI chose to summarize Nicole Constable’s book Romance on a Global Stage: Pen Pals, Virtual Ethnography, and “Mail Order” Marriages through a…Jul 5, 2017Jul 5, 2017
Abigail HartinMedia EthnographyBeware: Trolls Lurking in the Comments SectionDr. Whitney Phillips is an Assistant Professor of Literary Studies and Writing at the Penfield College of Mercer University. In 2015 she…Jul 5, 2017Jul 5, 2017
Abigail HartinMedia EthnographyHiding Behind the Mask: Dissociative TrollingTrolling as a mask is a common theme in Dr. Whitney Phillips’s book, This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship…Jul 5, 2017Jul 5, 2017
Abigail HartinMedia EthnographyDisaster in an Online Community: Trolling the World of Beauty YouTubeThe YouTube beauty community is a small world. Self proclaimed beauty gurus post videos of themselves doing their makeup, reviewing…Jul 5, 2017Jul 5, 2017
Abigail HartinMedia EthnographyEthnographic Research: Theory and MethodsFor my research, I am interviewing four women between the ages of 18 and 25 about how they use Bumble. I am focusing on how they feel about…Jul 1, 2017Jul 1, 2017
Abigail HartinMedia EthnographyI Don’t Know How to Feel: Contrasting the Serene and the DisturbingThis photo was taken on a day that profoundly changed American culture. 9/11 was a horrific tragedy that has been the source of huge…Jun 29, 20175Jun 29, 20175
Abigail HartinMedia EthnographyCreationist Capitalism: You Are the ProductTom Boellstorff is anthropologist at The University of California, Irvine. He has conducted extensive research in Indonesia as well as in…Jun 29, 2017Jun 29, 2017
Abigail HartinMedia EthnographyThe Complicated Economic Market of Virtual CurrencyTom Boellstorff is an anthropologist working at the University of California, Irvine. In 2008 he wrote a book called Coming of Age in…Jun 29, 2017Jun 29, 2017
Abigail HartinMedia EthnographyMaking Sense of a Virtual World Using Cinematic ImaginationCinematic imagination is a concept described by Elliott and Culhane in the book A Different Kind of Ethnography: Imaginative Practices and…Jun 29, 20171Jun 29, 20171
Abigail HartinMedia EthnographyDogspotting: An Online Community, a Sport, and a Way of LifeAn imagined community is one in which the members are from different geographical origins and backgrounds, and may never actually meet face…Jun 22, 20174Jun 22, 20174