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Building Community in Digital Fieldwork

by Jack Rechsteiner and Betsy Sneller, Michigan State University

Like many research programs that rely on ethnographic fieldwork, traditional sociolinguistic research relies heavily on researchers building rapport with participants by spending time in their communities and sitting down with them in person to audio-record informal conversations.