期刊名称：International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology
电子版ISSN：1814-0556
出版年度：2009
卷号：5
期号：2
页码：32-48
出版社：University of the West Indies
摘要：A number of community-based information and communication technology (ICT) for developmentinitiatives, both within Australia and in South Asia have benefited from the application of a form ofaction research. This paper describes and discusses the rationale, practice and implications forwider uses of what we term Ethnographic Action Research. Ethnographic Action Research (EAR)is similar to Participatory Action Research (PAR), with three key distinctions or characteristics thatwe will elaborate upon in this paper as we describe how it is practiced. Firstly the 'ethnographic'refers not only to the key tools or methods that are used (none of which are exclusive to EAR),but to the 'ethnographic approach' that is a fundamental plank of EAR, and the way it is bothintegrated into the development of media initiatives and is ongoing. It is designed to build thecapacity of media initiatives themselves to monitor and evaluate and consequently to alterpractices as part of their ongoing development, with the EAR researcher being a member of themedia initiative team, most usually with other roles and responsibilities within the initiative itself.Secondly, it works with the conceptual framework of the 'communicative ecology', which involvespaying keen attention to the wider context of information and communication flows and channels -formal and informal, technical and social ¨C and, monitoring both opportunities for intervention andthe changes that result. Finally, we use media itself as a tool for action research: for exploringissues in a community as well as archiving, managing and collecting data and facilitating onlinenetworks of EAR researchers
