Paving a path to essentialize an “imagined” community: inquiring the contemporary music culture in the digital age through virtual ethnography
This paper regards internet users who “convene” in moderated groups according to a common interest, social attachment, or other multiple intersected connections as an “imagined” community that surfaces on a social networking platform. The validity of the community, especially when being of an ethnog...
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| description | This paper regards internet users who “convene” in moderated groups according to a common interest, social attachment, or other multiple intersected connections as an “imagined” community that surfaces on a social networking platform. The validity of the community, especially when being of an ethnographer’s interest, is argued through a documentation of responses captured and operated as ethnographic data. This is a preliminary study of music culture in the digital age through online survey as virtual ethnography to explore a glimpse of the reality via reactions of an “imagined” community. Through a systematic and critical presentation of the ethnographic data, music culture in the contemporary time is interpreted as a trajectory which significantly essentializes an “imagined community” as genuine as a physical field site in the light of cultural musicology. |
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| spelling | upm-1182572025-07-02T03:46:16Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/118257/ Paving a path to essentialize an “imagined” community: inquiring the contemporary music culture in the digital age through virtual ethnography Chow, Ow Wei This paper regards internet users who “convene” in moderated groups according to a common interest, social attachment, or other multiple intersected connections as an “imagined” community that surfaces on a social networking platform. The validity of the community, especially when being of an ethnographer’s interest, is argued through a documentation of responses captured and operated as ethnographic data. This is a preliminary study of music culture in the digital age through online survey as virtual ethnography to explore a glimpse of the reality via reactions of an “imagined” community. Through a systematic and critical presentation of the ethnographic data, music culture in the contemporary time is interpreted as a trajectory which significantly essentializes an “imagined community” as genuine as a physical field site in the light of cultural musicology. Peter Lang Group AG 2024 Article PeerReviewed text en cc_by_4 http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/118257/1/118257.pdf Chow, Ow Wei (2024) Paving a path to essentialize an “imagined” community: inquiring the contemporary music culture in the digital age through virtual ethnography. Asian Musicology, 33 (1). pp. 115-140. ISSN 2832-1197 https://www.peterlang.com/document/1510523 , https://www.peterlang.com/journal/48 |
| spellingShingle | Chow, Ow Wei Paving a path to essentialize an “imagined” community: inquiring the contemporary music culture in the digital age through virtual ethnography |
| title | Paving a path to essentialize an “imagined” community: inquiring the contemporary music culture in the digital age through virtual ethnography |
| title_full | Paving a path to essentialize an “imagined” community: inquiring the contemporary music culture in the digital age through virtual ethnography |
| title_fullStr | Paving a path to essentialize an “imagined” community: inquiring the contemporary music culture in the digital age through virtual ethnography |
| title_full_unstemmed | Paving a path to essentialize an “imagined” community: inquiring the contemporary music culture in the digital age through virtual ethnography |
| title_short | Paving a path to essentialize an “imagined” community: inquiring the contemporary music culture in the digital age through virtual ethnography |
| title_sort | paving a path to essentialize an “imagined” community: inquiring the contemporary music culture in the digital age through virtual ethnography |
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