Methods

• Ethics is always happening
• Informed consent: someone can sign a form but not understand it
• Pseudonyms; deductive de-identification
• The way he describes his messages to new FB friends, how he screenshots and shows their posts, etc. seems awkward, even socially abrupt
• Earning right to be somewhere
• Why interview at Columbia?
• Accesssss
• Access from invisibility, backstage
• "You should be thinking about how you think about it"
• "gained prestige, a book in his tenure binder, speaking invites, being seen as an expert, getting the opp to train more graduate students to do digital ethnographies ………"
• "Take my methods class if you want to talk more :)"

Ambar presentation