The Ethnographic Approaches to New Media blog entry briefly reviews E. Gabriella Coleman's article of the same name, citing three broad categories of research. It also includes links to a couple online bibliographies (including one by an author in Chapter 1).
Network Ethnography and the Hypermedia Organization is a paper in which Philip N. Howard "[uses] social network analysis to justify case selection for ethnography, [proposing] 'network ethnography' as a synergistic research design for the study of the organizational forms built around new media." He argues that while qualitative methods are great for describing human interaction, they "can be unwieldy" when looking at the distances often covered by new media.
An entry on Kowski's Diary blog discusses multi-sited ethnography, which Hine discusses extensively in her argument in Chapter 1. And just for fun, I found this article on Sage Journals about following global poker as a means to study multi-sited, emergent communities.
And finally, I thought of Kevin when I found Making Online News, a new ethnography "bring[ing] the rich tradition of new production sociology to investigate the production of online journalism."
Great links Kim. Kevin made me realize that more of an intro is called for but this should help us get a handle on the issues at hand.
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