6. Digital technology and ethnographic research

Authors

  • Carmen Lúcia Guimarães de Mattos Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

Drawing primarily on the work of Frederick Erickson and Erving Goffman, this article studies the nature of digital ethnography and its implicationsfor educational research. The framework thus used acknowledges that to integrate digital culture into an analogical world while also reducingsocio-educational inequalities, researchers must look at how education is assimilating digital tools. The main goals of this article are to develop a socialand educational sensibility for digital culture and its benefi ts, and to expand the critical-refl exive thinking of researchers, educators, and students. In theprocess, this paper may contribute to both an understanding of knowledge advancement in ethnography and the formulation of new research andteaching pedagogies involving digital technologies.

Author Biography

Carmen Lúcia Guimarães de Mattos, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Carmen de Mattos is Associated Professor of Rio de Janeiro State University
(UERJ), she is Pro-scientist and researcher fellow for the National Council for
Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) as well as for the Fundação
Carlos Chagas Filho Research Support of the State of Rio de Janeiro
(FAPERJ). Prior to joining the Faculty o Education at UERJ she was a
Adjunct Professor of the Federal Fluminense University (UFF - 1992-1996)
and Professor for Mackenzie University in São Paulo (1984-1992) She has
been a Visiting Scholar at the Sorbonne University in Paris, France in 2000,
at the Sydney University, from 2008-2009 and at the Cambridge University in
2012.

Published

2014-02-10