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Toward a connective ethnography of online/offline literacy networks Leander, Kevin. 2008. Toward a connective ethnography of online/offline literacy networks. In Handbook of Research on New Literacies, ed. D. Leu, J. Cairo, Michelle Knobel, and Colin Lankshear, 33–65. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Cited in Connected Play: “In addition to these aggregated analyses, we decided to approach the logfile data with two other perspectives in the relatively new tradition of connective ethnography in studying people across spaces and times. In one, the person perspective, we wanted to build case studies of players that recreated their participation over time, while in the other, the practice per- spective, we wanted to develop an account of how a particular gaming prac- tice was adopted over time. In both cases, we used logfile data to capture the “who, when, how, and where” but supplemented this with information available from field notes, video records, and interviews. Making sense of logfiles qualitatively, especially longitudinally following one person or one practice over several months, is challenging and unusual, and it represents one of the methodological contributions of our work.”