Essay #2
Digital Community Ethnography Essay #2: Exploring the Issue
This second draft asks you to begin the difficult work of paying attention to your community/organization/culture and what is going on within it. To complete this draft you will need to explore and analyze primary sources of your culture. This can include social media pages, opinion articles written by those who are part of the culture, videos, websites, observations. At this point you ARE NOT doing interviews or using secondary sources. Your job is to figure out:
Once again write about what you suspect may be important here. It all may not appear in the final essay but it is crucial to write about what you are noticing and suspect to be important.
In addition to your writing you must include at least two images that are important and enhance the information you are conveying.
Crafting a Thesis: As with any essay you should develop a thesis statement that you prove throughout your essay with evidence and support. A thesis statement in this case might state what you notice to be important about this place and this group through their surroundings. What do you suspect about the group from their surroundings?
Audience: Your audience for this essay, as with each of the essays forming the ethnography, is two-fold: First, it is the people at the site you are studying and second, it is your peers as you will be sharing parts of this writing with them.
Brass Tacks: Your paper should be 4-5 pages long, not including images. You must include at least two images.
This second draft asks you to begin the difficult work of paying attention to your community/organization/culture and what is going on within it. To complete this draft you will need to explore and analyze primary sources of your culture. This can include social media pages, opinion articles written by those who are part of the culture, videos, websites, observations. At this point you ARE NOT doing interviews or using secondary sources. Your job is to figure out:
- Issues that are important to the community/organization/culture.
- Describe the types of people that make up the community/organization/culture
- Descriptions of artifacts that seem to be important to the group.
- Descriptions of customs/rituals that seem to be important to the group.
Once again write about what you suspect may be important here. It all may not appear in the final essay but it is crucial to write about what you are noticing and suspect to be important.
In addition to your writing you must include at least two images that are important and enhance the information you are conveying.
Crafting a Thesis: As with any essay you should develop a thesis statement that you prove throughout your essay with evidence and support. A thesis statement in this case might state what you notice to be important about this place and this group through their surroundings. What do you suspect about the group from their surroundings?
Audience: Your audience for this essay, as with each of the essays forming the ethnography, is two-fold: First, it is the people at the site you are studying and second, it is your peers as you will be sharing parts of this writing with them.
Brass Tacks: Your paper should be 4-5 pages long, not including images. You must include at least two images.
