- José L..Abdelnour Nocera

 saggio, 2002

Ethnography and Hermeneutics in Cybercultural Research Accessing IRC Virtual Communities

 http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol7/issue2/nocera.html

This article suggests a qualitative methodological framework and a holistic-historicistic epistemological perspective that balances the sociopsychological and cultural dimensions of IRC Virtual Communities. CMC cultural research should not be focused on intercultural collision phenomena alone, but also on cultural construction from inside the Net. An ethnographic strategy discovering cybercultures together with Gadamer's hermeneutics for the interpretation of systems of meanings are the proposed tools for understanding "virtual" life and cultural production within the Net.

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 saggio, 1998

Virtual environments as spaces of symbolic construction and cultural identity: Latin American virtual communities

 http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac/catac98/pdf/15_nocera.pdf

The present work has as a principal goal to assess the sociopsychological and cultural (symbols and meanings) realities of the virtual community group life framed in the Latin American context. Using a comparative ethnographic study of several Latin virtual communities, the sociopsychological and cultural phenomena of the virtual group in the sense expressed by Harré (1979), will be described.

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