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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?

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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
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