Mobile ethnography: a means of methodological analysis for gender identity in Facebook.
In this paper I consider the mobile ethnography as a methodological possibility for the socio-anthropological analysis of gender, identities, internet and the traffic that characterizes all these. This proposal is based on a research work with trans people (MtF) from México City. Internet and social...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2016 |
| Country: | México |
| Institution: | EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO |
| Repository: | Revista Interdisciplinaria de estudios de género de El Colegio de México |
| Language: | Spanish |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:oai.estudiosdegenero.colmex.mx:article/50 |
| Online Access: | https://estudiosdegenero.colmex.mx/index.php/eg/article/view/50 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Gender Identity Transgender Internet Ethnography Género Identidad Trans Etnografía |
| Summary: | In this paper I consider the mobile ethnography as a methodological possibility for the socio-anthropological analysis of gender, identities, internet and the traffic that characterizes all these. This proposal is based on a research work with trans people (MtF) from México City. Internet and social media gain importance in daily life of people. Virtuality is no more a science fiction periphery but a daily communication instrument and a social space. Social media are not firm spaces but characterized because of the constant traffic online-offline of users. Gender identity plays a central role in these movements. |
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