Author Archives: peterforberg
Algorithmic Ethnography
I have written a guide for conducting algorithmic ethnography, which I am considering a more technically informed version of cyber-ethnography. It takes algorithms as both a method for ethnographic...
Digital Archiving Resources
Here’s a short list of resources that I’ve compiled for doing digital backups and archival work, and while this is certainly not exhaustive, it just includes the things that...
Final Project Draft: Algorithmic Ethnography
Linked on this blog post is a website that I began building to address a method of virtual ethnography that I want to explore in my final project. For...
Maternity in the Polity – An Interview with My Mom
At the end of this post I have attached a brief excerpt from my interview with my mother. As for some context: in my current research on conservatives, I...
Waiting Out the Rain in Project Zomboid
Many video games draw players in with fast-paced, vibrant gameplay that provides instant gratification through hyperstimulation and perpetual rewards; however, Project Zomboid offers players a different form of engagement, replacing constant...
Fieldnotes – Frances Makes a Smoothie
For my fieldnotes practice, I decided to interview my younger sister over Google Duo while she made a smoothie, a not infrequent activity in our family home. Keeping in...
A Code of Ethics for Studying Online Live-Action Roleplaying Games (O-RPGs)
I have written this code of ethics to remind researchers of the precarity of digital sociation as we investigate explicitly virtual worlds in the form of online live-action roleplaying...