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Journal (Andrew Asher et al., "Mapping Student Days: Collective Ethnography and the Student Experience") For this journal, you are asked to read an example of ethnographic research. Ethnography involves the researcher immersing themselves in a group that they are studying. Along with interviewing and surveying, it is one of the modes of original, first-hand research that will be available to you later this semester, when you incorporate your own original research into your study of the topic of your choice.
Ordinarily, an ethnographic researcher might go to a field site and observe the interactions among the members of a group of their choosing: a college fraternity or sorority, a sports team, a cultural group, a religious organization, a rock band. Clearly, the circumstances of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic preclude much of that sort of ethnographic research. One can still, however, carry out virtual ethnographic research, as the authors of this article did in observing college student chat rooms. Get the instant assignment help.
Read "Mapping Student Days" and write a 250-word journal setting forth your sense of how, and how well, the authors used ethnographic research methods to obtain data and discuss the significance of their findings.