The Use of Narrative Analysis in Identity Research in Virtual Ethnography: Possibilities and Constraints
[Primenenie narrativnogo analiza k izucheniiu identichnostei v ramkakh virtual’noi etnografii: vozmozhnosti i ogranicheniia]
Type of publication: Research Article
Submitted: 11.11.2019
Accepted: 02.03.2019
About author(s)
Anastasia Poretskova | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1051-7068 | a.poretskova@hse.ru | Higher School of Economics – National Research University (20 Myasnitskaya St., Moscow, 101000, Russia)
Timur Slavgorodskii-Kazanets | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7291-4448 | tvslavgorodskiy-kazanets@edu.hse.ru | Higher School of Economics – National Research University (20 Myasnitskaya St., Moscow, 101000, Russia)
Keywords
virtual ethnography, narrative analysis, identity, identity construction process, qualitative methods
Abstract
Cyberspace differs from offline reality due to its anonymity, general accessibility, fuzziness of space- time coordinates, etc. In this article, we try to outline the advantages of narrative analysis for the study of online identities. The examination sheds light upon various peculiarities of the identity construction process in virtual reality. The first part of the article deals with the form and content of qualitative data in virtual environment; the second part discusses the identity construction process in the digital world; while the final part focuses on the use of narrative analysis methods and their specificities in research on identity in the framework of virtual ethnography.
Citation
Poretskova, A.A., and T.V. Slavgorodskii-Kazanets. 2020. The Use of Narrative Analysis in Identity Research in Virtual Ethnography: Possibilities and Constraints [Primenenie narrativnogo analiza k izucheniiu identichnostei v ramkakh virtual’noi etnografii: vozmozhnosti i ogranicheniia]. Etnograficheskoe obozrenie 1: 51–61. https://doi.org/10.31857/S086954150008755-0
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