Digital Ethnography Ethical Challenges and Guidelines
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The rapid development of the internet and related digital technologies, a close link of everyday lives to online spaces which has become ordinary, and a change of perspectives on a "field site" has led anthropologists to apply ethnographic research methods in examining complicated social interactions as well as the construction, presentation, and negotiation of different forms of the identity of people in the virtual world. The specific nature of online communities that do not allow anthropologists to immerse themselves in a field site to employ a participant observation with people in such a virtual space has raised debates over methodology and challenges regarding human research ethics. Therefore, anthropologists, who switched from doing fieldwork in a physical space to the digital sphere, must design and conduct research that not only maintains disciplines but also considers the human research ethical challenges and guidelines.
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