Ethnographic fieldwork : studying journalists at work

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Thomsen, Line Hassall author

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This case study is an account of how Thomsen used ethnographic methods such as participant observation to study the everyday work of journalists. It presents the uses of ethnographic fieldwork as w...

This case study is an account of how Thomsen used ethnographic methods such as participant observation to study the everyday work of journalists. It presents the uses of ethnographic fieldwork as well as some of the obstacles and challenges of this particular method for studying journalists specifically. This case focuses particularly on the challenges of limiting the field of research and of studying a group to which the researcher already belongs.

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