Open AccessDilemmas of Ethnographic Research: The Practitioner/Academic’s Quandary
Author(s) -
Somnath Batabyal
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
networking knowledge
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1755-9944
DOI - 10.31165/nk.2007.11.4
Subject(s) - insider , ethnography , experiential learning , sociology , public relations , engineering ethics , pedagogy , political science , law , engineering , anthropology
This paper examines the ethics of ethnographic research for a practitioner turned academic. It looks at the use of contacts in gaining entry into newsrooms, the ethics of observation and participation, the use of the experiential to draw out journalists in interviews, the employment of insider knowledge to attain proximity to news producers and the resultant ethics.