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dc.contributor.authorBarratt, Monica
dc.contributor.authorMaddox, A.
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T12:58:38Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T12:58:38Z
dc.date.created2016-12-29T19:30:18Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.citationBarratt, M. and Maddox, A. 2016. Active engagement with stigmatised communities through digital ethnography. Qualitative Research. 16 (6): pp. 701-719.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27369
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1468794116648766
dc.description.abstract

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. Conducting research in the rapidly evolving fields constituting the digital social sciences raises challenging ethical and technical issues, especially when the subject matter includes activities of stigmatised populations. Our study of a dark-web drug-use community provides a case example of ‘how to’ conduct studies in digital environments where sensitive and illicit activities are discussed. In this paper we present the workflow from our digital ethnography and consider the consequences of particular choices of action upon knowledge production. Key considerations that our workflow responded to include adapting to volatile field-sites, researcher safety in digital environments, data security and encryption, and ethical-legal challenges. We anticipate that this workflow may assist other researchers to emulate, test and adapt our approach to the diverse range of illicit studies online. In this paper we argue that active engagement with stigmatised communities through multi-sited digital ethnography can complement and augment the findings of digital trace analyses.

dc.titleActive engagement with stigmatised communities through digital ethnography
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume16
dcterms.source.number6
dcterms.source.startPage701
dcterms.source.endPage719
dcterms.source.issn1468-7941
dcterms.source.titleQualitative Research
curtin.departmentNational Drug Research Institute (NDRI)
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