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Open Research Online The Open University’s repository of research publications and other research outputs An Ethnographic Study of Everyday Interactions in Innovative Learning Spaces Thesis How to cite: Pantidi, Nadia (2013). An Ethnographic Study of Everyday Interactions in Innovative Learning Spaces. PhD thesis The Open University.This thesis explores the performative enactment of identity and embodiment through an online ethnography of the online game Final Fantasy XIV. It is argued that online identity must be viewed as performative, that is, enacted through speech and action, and embodied via the avatar, which acts as a body project for the player. The avatar identity is also constrained by the notion of authentic.This thesis explores the performative enactment of identity and embodiment through an online ethnography of the online game Final Fantasy XIV. It is argued that online identity must be viewed as performative, that is, enacted through speech and action, and embodied via the avatar, which acts as a body project for the player. The avatar identity.
Doing narrative ethnography: methods and research design My reasoning behind focusing on narratives as both the object and method of inquiry should be clear from the previous considerations around ontology. To sum up: “Stories are dynamic, changeable, never the same. Yet they convey something about what we believe to be stable in the world.This thesis is an anthropological investigation of the interconnections between personhood and place in rural northern Kyrgyzstan. It studies the way people negotiate and experience relations with others and with the places in which they live and work. It is based on 18 months of fieldwork carried out in Kochkor raion between June 2006 and August 2008.
The Everyday Lives of Men: An Ethnographic Investigation of Young Adult Male Identity Peter Gill Victoria University Thesis Submitted for a Doctor of Philosophy Degree at Victoria University, Faculty of Arts, Education, and Human Development, School of Psychology, 2008.
