Researchers often conceal or reveal parts of their identity to ensure the success of fieldwork. Yet, connection between researchers and research participants can now be maintained via social networking sites. This raises new questions about the ethics and practicalities of negotiating identity during and after fieldwork. The paper draws on a narrative ethnography of concealing my lesbian identity during and after ethnographic research in Bolivia. I demonstrate that in a socially mediated world the “curation” of researcher identity is no longer temporally and geographically bound to the periods and locales of fieldwork. Second, I argue that a researcher's decision to conceal elements of their identity may be informed by essentialist assumptions about research participants. Third, researchers may effectively colonise and silence research participants because they speak for them and remove any opportunity for participants to respond to the element of the researcher's identity being hidden, such as sexuality, class, or religion.

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在实地调查和社交媒体中隐藏研究人员身份：性行为和为参与者说话

研究人员经常隐藏或透露他们的部分身份，以确保实地考察的成功。然而，研究人员和研究参与者之间的联系现在可以通过社交网站来维持。这提出了关于在实地工作期间和之后协商身份的伦理和实用性的新问题。这篇论文借鉴了在玻利维亚的民族志研究期间和之后隐藏我的女同性恋身份的叙事民族志。我证明，在一个以社会为中介的世界中，研究人员身份的“管理”不再在时间和地理上与田野工作的时期和地点有关。其次，我认为研究人员隐藏其身份要素的决定可能是由关于研究参与者的本质主义假设所决定的。第三，