Introduction to Digital Ethnography Lecture
by Rev. Dr Erin Raffety*Resources for congregations mentioned in the above video lecture (see below)
Sarah Pink: Digital Ethnography
Sarah Pink is a Professor of Design and Media Ethnography at RMIT University, Australia, and the author or co-editor of several books about digital ethnography.
Understanding Congregations Through Digital Ethnography Article
By Rev. Dr. Erin Raffety
Empirical Research Consultant
Imagining Church Project: Thriving Congregations Initiative through Lilly Endowment, Inc.
Books
How to Study Congregations
Nancy T. Ammerman (Editor), Jackson Carroll (Editor), Carl Dudley (Editor), William McKinney (Editor), Studying Congregations: A New Handbook, Abingdon Press; (September 1998)
Mary Clark Moschella, Ethnography as a Pastoral Practice: An Introduction, The Pilgrim Press, 2008.
Robert J. Schreiter, Constructing Local Theologies, Orbis Books; (February 1985).
John Swinton, Harriet Mowat, Practical Theology and Qualitative Research, SCM Press; 2nd Edition, (January 2006)
How to Digitally Study Congregations
Heidi A. Campbell, Stephen Garner, Networked Theology: Negotiating Faith in Digital Culture, Baker Academic, (September 2016).
Sarah Pink, Heather Horst, et al., Digital Ethnography: Principles and Practice, Sage Publications Ltd; 1st edition, (November 2015).
Liz Przybylski, Hybrid Ethnography: Online, Offline and In Between, Sage Publications, Inc., 1st edition, (June 2020).