Ethnographic Methods
- Nicely described here
- Contextual interviews
- Diary studies
- Building trust between researcher and participant is essential to avoid the "observer effect"
- Observation
- Participation
- Active X passive observation
- Asking questions and probing during active, remaining silent during passive
- "While observing participants, researchers should take notes 3 main notes about activities: what participant do, what participants say during the experience if they are asked by the researcher and how researchers interpret those situations."
- Non-participation
- Being like a "fly on the wall"