Useful resources : ethnography through the Internet

The Wide World Web (WWW) is by now an everyday fact of life. The social scientist, like the layman, cannot work without being connected to this new world, where we can access articles, references, news reports, etc., which we would previously have known nothing about unless we were in direct contact with the authors. In some respects the Internet has also brought greater democracy in the sciences: we are better informed and therefore have more opportunities to participate in conferences, calls, initiatives and events, meeting other students and researchers, and forming new relationships. E-mail enables us to contact people and exchange opinions, to do research, and to write articles with colleagues whom we have never met physically. All this takes place in real time, while we are physically located in different and sometimes very distant places: things that were impossible twenty years ago. The main aim of this research note is to collect, order and classify the principal ethnographic resources to be found on the web, and to offer it to those are interested on ethnographic method. It is obviously a partial list, because new resources are constantly becoming available on-line.