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Dokument Type: Article
metadata.dc.title: Co-operation and/as participant observation
Title addition: reflections on ethnographic fieldwork in Morocco
Authors: Holdermann, Simon 
Institute: DFG-Sonderforschungsbereich 1187 "Medien der Kooperation" 
Free keywords: Co-operation as participant observation
Dewey Decimal Classification: 302.23 Medien (Kommunikationsmittel), Medienwissenschaft
GHBS-Clases: KLEZ
Issue Date: 2019
Publish Date: 2021
Journal: Media in action : interdisciplinary journal on cooperative media 
Source: Media in action : interdisciplinary journal on cooperative media ; 2019,1: Media ethnography. – ISSN 2567-9082, S. 45 – 62.
Abstract: 
This contribution carves out the co-operative foundations for ethnographic fieldwork, and participant observation in particular, by reflecting on the so-called ‘entry to the field’ as well as the establishment of rapport between ethnographer and interlocutors. Drawing on my fieldwork experience in the Moroccan High Atlas, I propose to understand the ethnographer’s delicate position as being both apprentice and expert simultaneously. Focusing on this relation enables methodological reflections on the workings of ethnographic research, the necessary co-operation of ‘researcher’ and ‘informants’, and the involved media practices. To take this tension seriously makes another insight possible: that the ethnographer, too, is being observed and under constant scrutiny. In this light, successful ethnographic research is possible precisely when successful conditions for mutual exchange and interaction can be situatively created and maintained. It is therefore a process of continuous co-operation that is mediated and necessarily involves media and even produces a range of different media practices.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25819/ubsi/8326
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:467-18406
URI: https://dspace.ub.uni-siegen.de/handle/ubsi/1840
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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