Online Community

Most of the Lipscomb chats I found ended up being focused on dating and singles from Lipscomb. I did find one website called chatBU that has scheduled chat sessions. I can see online communities helping with an Ethnographic study because it is easy to get in touch with people you don't know. It also works as a focus group in a way. (At least the scheduled chat sessions do). People come together to discuss their opinions on a similar topic. I feel that online communities also give people a chance to be brutally honest and speak their opinion more because you aren't face to face with someone. You have a screen and sometimes anonymous identity to protect you. This could be very helpful in an ethnographic study because it gives the researcher an honest inside look of the opinions of people from a certain culture.