What is it about?
This article discusses integrating online and 'traditional' (real world, or face-to-face) qualitative research methods, especially ethnography, to get a better understanding of populations being researched. This reflects the increasing role that the internet and social media play in the everyday lives of people - including criminals - in the modern world. The article draws on 15 years of researching cannabis growers in the UK.
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Why is it important?
Criminal activity and networking, like all other aspects of contemporary life, increasingly takes place both online and offline - indeed, the difference between these two realms is increasingly artificial! A complete understanding of criminal activity needs to draw on research methods that address both online and offline aspects.
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This page is a summary of: Real gates to virtual fields: Integrating online and offline ethnography in studying cannabis cultivation and reflections on the applicability of this approach in criminological ethnography more generally, Methodological Innovations, January 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/2059799117720609.
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