https://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/author/whsu/Recent content in Whsu on Journal of Digital HumanitiesHugoen-USSat, 01 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/3-1/digital-ethnography-toward-augmented-empiricism-by-wendy-hsu/Sat, 01 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/3-1/digital-ethnography-toward-augmented-empiricism-by-wendy-hsu/<p><strong>How Do Digital Technologies Deepen Ethnographic Practices?</strong></p> <p>Culture takes variegated forms, including lived experiences, social interactions, memories, rituals, transactions, events, conversations, stories, gestures, and expressive disciplines like music and dance. These processes and artifacts of social life make an ethnographer’s job as analyst and cultural documentarian dynamic and challenging. The increasing digital mediation in the field of ethnographic inquiry is undeniable. Through the engagement of individual users, governments, corporations, and even grassroots organizations, the ubiquity of computational technology has a far-reaching impact on social life. These technologies mediate culture by documenting, sharing, sensing, tagging, locating, trading, synchronizing, filtering, automating, remixing, and mining the everyday experiences of our research associates. Rather than walking away from the digital, we ethnographers should give serious considerations to software as infrastructure and materiality at the sites of our research. We should also be mindful of our own digital research practices as we utilize digital technology to organize, manage, and publish our field findings.</p>https://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/3-1/code-appendix-for-digital-ethnography/Sat, 01 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/3-1/code-appendix-for-digital-ethnography/<p><code>require 'rubygems' require 'mechanize' require 'geokit' include Geokit::Geocoders</code></p> <p><code># intitialize agent and open page agent = Mechanize.new</code></p> <h1 id="create-a-txt-file-to-save-the-results-of-the-program-in">create a .txt file to save the results of the program in</h1> <p>filename = &lsquo;MyspaceFriendListnew.txt&rsquo;<br> File.open filename, &lsquo;w&rsquo; do |f|</p> <p>f.puts &ldquo;lat\tlon\ttitle\tdescription\ticonSize\ticonOffset\ticon&rdquo;</p> <p>friend_pagenumber = 1</p> <h1 id="fill-in-the-starting-page-number-of-friend-result-pages">Fill in the starting page number of friend result pages</h1> <p>BandName = &rsquo;thekominas&rsquo;</p> <h1 id="fill-in-the-friendid-of-the-band">Fill in the friendId of the band</h1> <p>band_url = &lsquo;<a href="http://myspace.com/'">http://myspace.com/'</a> + BandName + &lsquo;/friends/all/page/&rsquo; + friend_pagenumber.to_s<br> page = agent.get(band_url)</p>