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134: Elon Musk, Buddhabro? (w/Ann Gleig and Brenna Artinger)

Conspirituality

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What's the Problem With Virtual Ethnography?

Anne, you come into a project like this trailing a digital footprint behind you that anybody can easily look up and see. It just seems like virtual ethnography really precludes the anonymity that we would find in other types of field work. Like it's very difficult to go undercover if you're going to use your real name. But what happens with virtual ethnography is that you don't actually get the sort of human sit-down presence where maybe some of those confusions might be worked out or might convey more nuance.

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