Annette Markham

Annette Markham is an American academic, Professor at RMIT School of Media and Communication and Professor MSO of Information Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark.[1] She is Co-Director of RMIT's Digital Ethnography Research Centre. She has served on the executive committee[2] of the Association of Internet Researchers since 2013. She has published research in the area of Internet studies, digital identity, social interaction, innovative qualitative methods for social research, and Internet research ethics.[3]

Annette Markham

Ph.D.
Markham at Microsoft Research Cambridge in 2015
NationalityAmerican
Alma materPurdue University,
Washington State University,
Idaho State University
Known forqualitative research methods, Internet research ethics, philosophy of method
Scientific career
FieldsInternet studies, Information Studies, Science and Technology Studies
InstitutionsRMIT,
Aarhus University,
Loyola University Chicago
ThesisGoing online: An ethnographic narrative (1997)
InfluencesSymbolic Interactionism, Systems Theory, Postmodernism
Websitewww.annettemarkham.com

Publications

Markham has authored more than 50 articles since 1995. Her first book, Life Online: Researching real experience in virtual space, was published in 1998, which reviewers called "a definitive sociological study of what it's like to be on the net"[4] and "a bold move in the exponentially increasingly field of internet studies....that allows the reader to appreciate the challenges of applying contemporary ethnographic methods to online populations."[5] In 2009, Markham edited an internet research methods volume entitled "Internet Inquiry: Conversations about method" with Nancy Baym.[6] In 2020, Markham and coauthor Katrin Tiidenberg published a followup to Life Online in the form of a curated collection involving 30 contributors, entitled Metaphors of Internet: Ways of being in the age of Ubiquity.

Markham has published multiple pieces on Internet research ethics. She is the primary author of the Association of Internet Researchers' official 2012 ethical guidelines for internet research (PDF). The framework of this document uses Markham's earlier published works linking ethics to methods, first in a Norwegian edited volume in 2003 and later in the Journal of Information Ethics.[7] In reviewing ethical frameworks, the Handbook of Internet Studies cites Markham's convincing arguments that "methodological choices inform and are informed by ethical choices."[8] Markham's concept of 'ethics as method' is highlighted in encyclopaedic discussions of research ethics and scientific integrity.[9]

Markham's arguments around qualitative methods focus on the importance of context sensitivity, flexible adaptation, and reflexivity. These concepts have been foundational for developing frameworks for methods such as online interviewing.[10] Markham is cited as a key figure and 'recommended reading' for researching digital contexts in textbooks and handbooks on qualitative research practice.[11][12][13][14]

Markham maintains a blog about a range of conceptual and pragmatic issues related to lived experience in 21st Century contexts of complexity at http://annettemarkham.com.

Education

Academic appointments

Books
  • Markham, A. & Tiidenberg, K. (2020). Metaphors of Internet: Ways of being in the age of Ubiquity: London, UK: Peter Lang. ISBN 978-1-4331-7450-6
  • Markham, A. & Baym, N. (2009). Internet Inquiry: Conversations about method. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. ISBN 1452278768
  • Markham, A. (1998). Life Online: Researching real experiences in virtual space. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press. ISBN 0761990313

References
  1. "Annette Markham - Research - Aarhus University". Retrieved 6 May 2015.
  2. "Executive Committee – AoIR". aoir.org. Retrieved 2016-10-20.
  3. Annette Markham publications indexed by Google Scholar
  4. Life-Online-Researching-Real-Experience-in-Virtual-Space. Archived from the original on 2016-11-25. Retrieved 2016-10-20.
  5. Williams, Matthew (2001-12-01). "Book Review: Life Online: Researching Real Experience in Virtual Space". Qualitative Research. 1 (3): 426–427. doi:10.1177/146879410100100313. ISSN 1468-7941.
  6. Markham, Annette; Nancy, Baym (July 2008). Internet inquiry: Conversations about method. Los Angeles: Sage Publications. ISBN 978-1412910019.
  7. Markham, Annette (November 2006). "Ethic as method, method as ethic". Journal of Information Ethics. 15 (2): 37–54. doi:10.3172/JIE.15.2.37.
  8. Consalvo, Mia; Ess, Charles, eds. (2012-12-17). The Handbook of Internet Studies (1 ed.). Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781118400074.
  9. Ess, Charles Melvin (2019), Iphofen, Ron (ed.), "Internet Research Ethics and Social Media", Handbook of Research Ethics and Scientific Integrity, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 1–21, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-76040-7_12-1, ISBN 978-3-319-76040-7, retrieved 2020-10-29
  10. James, Nalita; Busher, Hugh (2009). Online interviewing. Los Angeles: Sage. ISBN 978-1-4462-0235-7. OCLC 698104069.
  11. Silverman, David (2015-01-22). Interpreting Qualitative Data (5th Revised ed.). SAGE Publications Ltd. ISBN 9781446295434.
  12. Paulus, Trena; Lester, Jessica N.; Dempster, Paul (2013-12-27). Digital Tools for Qualitative Research (1 ed.). SAGE Publications Ltd. ISBN 9781446256077.
  13. Lichtman, Marilyn V. (2012-01-20). Qualitative Research in Education: A User's Guide (3 ed.). Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc. ISBN 9781412995320.
  14. Marshall, Catherine; Rossman, Gretchen B. (2015-01-07). Designing Qualitative Research (6th ed.). SAGE Publications, Inc. ISBN 9781452271002.
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