Participant Observation: A Guide for Fieldworkers by Kathleen Musante (DeWalt),Billie R. DeWalt

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method

Ethnography and digital Worlds is the one publication of its kind--a concise, accomplished, and useful consultant for college students, academics, designers, and students drawn to utilizing ethnographic the way to examine on-line digital worlds, together with either online game and nongame environments. Written by way of prime ethnographers of digital worlds, and concentrating on the most important approach to player commentary, the ebook offers beneficial recommendation, assistance, directions, and rules to help researchers via each level of a undertaking, from deciding upon an internet fieldsite to writing and publishing the consequences.

Religionsgemeinschaften in der direkten Demokratie: Handlungsräume religiöser Minderheiten in der Schweiz (Politik und Religion) (German Edition)

Melanie Zurlinden untersucht die Rolle religiöser Minderheiten in der Schweiz. Anhand von Gruppendiskussionen und publizierten Texten analysiert sie, wie sich freikirchliche, jüdische und muslimische Gemeinschaften in der direkten Demokratie an Kampagnen zu Volksabstimmungen beteiligen. Die Studie fokussiert auf die Diskussionen über Bioethik, Ausländer- und Asylfragen sowie das Religion-Staat-Verhältnis.

Exploring Everyday Life: Strategies for Ethnography and Cultural Analysis

The various initiatives and exercises that form our day-by-day life can look mundane, even invisible—and but they play an incredibly robust function in structuring and reproducing society. Exploring way of life casts gentle on those so-called minutiae, serving as either a consultant to the invisible international of the standard and an handbook for first-time explorers.

Understanding Communication Theory: A Beginner's Guide

This publication deals scholars a accomplished, theoretical, and functional consultant to verbal exchange conception. Croucher defines many of the views on verbal exchange theory—the social medical, interpretive, and important approaches—and then takes at the theories themselves, with issues together with interpersonal communique, organizational conversation, intercultural verbal exchange, persuasion, severe and rhetorical concept and different key ideas.