Academic texts
Bassett, Elizabeth H., and Kate O’Riordan. 2002. “Ethics of Internet Research: Contesting the Human Subjects Research Model.” Ethics and Information Technology 4(3):233–47.
Beaulieu, Anne, and Adolfo Estalella. 2012. “Rethinking Research Ethics for Mediated Settings.” Information, Communication & Society 15(1):23–42.
Boellstorff, Tom, Bonnie Nardi, Celia Pearce, T. L. Taylor, and George E. Marcus. 2012. Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method. Princeton University Press.
boyd, danah. Forthcoming. “Making Sense of Teen Life: Strategies for Capturing Ethnographic Data in a Networked Era.” in Digital Research Confidential: The Secrets of Studying Behavior Online, edited by E. Hargittai and C. Sandvig. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Gatson, Sarah N., and Amanda Zweerink. 2004. “Ethnography Online: ‘Natives’ Practising and Inscribing Community.” Qualitative Research 4(2):179–200.
Geiger, R. Stuart, and David Ribes. 2011. “Trace Ethnography: Following Coordination through Documentary Practices.” Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Retrieved (http://www.stuartgeiger.com/trace-ethnography-hicss-geiger-ribes.pdf).
Haigh, Carol, and Neil A. Jones. 2005. “An Overview of the Ethics of Cyber-Space Research and the Implication for Nurse Educators.” Nurse Education Today 25(1):3–8.
Hine, Christine. 2005. Virtual Methods. Oxford; New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
Hine, Christine. 2008a. “Internet Research as Emergent Practice.” Pp. 525–41 in Handbook of Emergent Methods, edited by Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber and Patricia Leavy. New York, NY: Guilford Press.
Hine, Christine. 2008b. “Overview: Virtual Ethnography: Modes, Varieties, Affordances.” Pp. 257–70 in Handbook of Online Research Methods, edited by Nigel Fielding, Raymond M. Lee, and Grant Blank. London, UK: Sage.
Hine, Christine. 2012. The Internet. 1 edition. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.
Hine, Christine M. 2000. Virtual Ethnography. 1 edition. London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif: SAGE Publications Ltd.
Hooley, Tristram, John Marriott, and Jane Wellens. 2012. What Is Online Research? Using the Internet for Social Science Research. Bloomsbury Academic. Retrieved (http://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/what-is-online-research-using-...).
Horst, Heather, Larissa Hjorth, and Jo Tacchi. 2012. “Rethinking Ethnography: An Introduction.” Media International Australia 145:86–93.
Karpf, David. 2012. “Social Science Research Methods in Internet Time.” Information, Communication & Society 15(5):639–61.
Garcia, Angela Cora, Alecea I. Standlee, Jennifer Bechkoff, and Yan Cui. 2009. “Ethnographic Approaches to the Internet and Computer-Mediated Communication.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 38(1):52–84.
Kendall, Lori. 2002. Hanging Out in the Virtual Pub. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Retrieved July 15, 2014 (http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520230385).
Kozinets, Robert V. 2009. Netnography: Doing Ethnographic Research Online. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications Ltd.
Markham, Annette, and Nancy K. Baym. 2008. Internet Inquiry: Conversations About Method. Los Angeles: SAGE Publications, Inc. Retrieved (http://www.sagepub.com/upm-data/23164_Chapter_1.pdf).
Markham, Annette N. 1998. Life Online: Researching Real Experience in Virtual Space. 1St Edition edition. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.
Marshall, Jon Paul. 2010. “Ambiguity, Oscillation and Disorder: Online Ethnography and the Making of Culture.” Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 2(3):1–22.
Miller, Daniel. 2011. Tales from Facebook. 1 edition. Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA: Polity.
Miller, Daniel, and Heather Horst, eds. 2012. Digital Anthropology. London, UK: Berg.
Murthy, Dhiraj. 2008. “Digital Ethnography: An Examination of the Use of New Technologies for Social Research.” Sociology 42(5):837–55.
Postill, John. 2011. Localizing the Internet: An Anthropological Account. New York: Berghahn Books.
Postill, John. 2014. “Democracy in an Age of Viral Reality: A Media Epidemiography of Spain’s Indignados Movement.” Ethnography 15(1):51–69.
Postill, John, and Sarah Pink. 2012. “Social Media Ethnography: The Digital Researcher in a Messy Web.” Media International Australia 145:123–34.
Rode, Jennifer. 2011. “Reflexivity in Digital Anthropology.” CHI 2011. Retrieved (http://www.ischool.drexel.edu/faculty/jrode/Papers/ReflexivityDigitalAnt...).
Other resources
Association of Internet Researchers
Digital Ethnography Research Centre
National Centre for Research Methods Digital Ethnography Training Workshop
OxDEG: The Oxford Digital Ethnography Group
Social Media Collective at Microsoft Research
UCL MSc in Digital Anthropology