Question

Using your knowledge of fieldwork strategies, and the importance of informants. How do you think that fieldwork methods used when conducting participants observation would change in an online setting?

(Anthropology)

Answer 1

Taking part in ethnographic fieldwork has the potential to change informants and researchers in sometimes-unpredictable ways. In some cases, anthropologists have worked with their informants to effect social change, although not all anthropologists agree that this is appropriate