AO: This 2009 paper by Jenna Burrell explores strategies devised by researchers to map social research onto spatial terrain. She focuses in particular on the logistical issues involved and practical steps to constructing virtual and networked sites into "field sites". This article includes suggestions for ways of studying social phenomena that take place on a vast terrain from a stationary position.
Jenna Burrell, "Burrell, Jenna. 2009. “The Field Site as a Network: A Strategy for Locating Ethnographic Research.” Field Methods 21 (2): 181–99.", contributed by Angela Okune, STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 8 August 2018, accessed 20 April 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/burrell-jenna-2009-“-field-site-network-strategy-locating-ethnographic-research”-field
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AO: This 2009 paper by Jenna Burrell explores strategies devised by researchers to map social research onto spatial terrain. She focuses in particular on the logistical issues involved and practical steps to constructing virtual and networked sites into "field sites". This article includes suggestions for ways of studying social phenomena that take place on a vast terrain from a stationary position.