In this article we engage the nature and role of the Internet in ethnographic research and reflect on how ethnographic methodologies may be adapted when researching digital forms of communication. We further consider how recent shifts in both the production and dissemination of textual discourse in networked media environments complicates conventional approaches to digital ethnography. Drawing on examples from our field research, our principal objective is to apply a Foucauldian structural perspective to David Altheide’s ethnographic content analysis to better contextualize the study of digital communiqué in a cultural moment where discourses are increasingly surveilled, modified, censored and weaponized.

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信息战时代的数字民族志：现场笔记

在本文中，我们探讨了互联网在人种学研究中的性质和作用，并反思了在研究数字通信形式时如何调整人种学方法。我们进一步考虑了网络媒体环境中文本话语的生产和传播的最新变化如何使数字民族志的传统方法复杂化。借鉴我们实地研究的例子，我们的主要目标是将福柯式的结构视角应用于 David Altheide 的民族志内容分析，以便在话语越来越受到监视、修改、审查和武器化的文化时刻，更好地将数字公报的研究置于语境中。