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Scholars Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences | Volume-6 | Issue-06
An Ethnographic Note on the Dimensions of ‘Identity’ and ‘Self’ in the Space of Virtual World
Priti Bhowmick, Pinaki Dey Mullick
Published: June 30, 2018 | 159 139
DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2018.v06i06.016
Pages: 1288-1292
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Abstract
The present effort is an ethnographic outcome with a qualitative mode of interactions with the participants under study that disposes the reality of the ‘self’ and ‘identity’ in a contested virtual space (facebook). As the active users of facebook, the orientations of the researchers help them to get meaningful understanding while conversing with the participants. Simultaneously with this, the researchers merge their experiences on facebook with their participants to form a ‘concrete’ scenario that pushes the researchers to think and rethink over the issue to frame the inductive findings within this small entry that became very difficult to us. Therefore we neither restricted us to deduct the entire discourses within the effort nor intended to exclude the performative experiences of the participants. The present ethnography is rather an outline to portray what we have understood through the entire course of the research and tries to open the possibilities of further multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary researches on the virtual network insights in the rapidly changing era of digitalization and globalization.