Lu, Sijing and Lu, Siwen 
ORCID: 0000-0002-1771-2157
(2022)
Methodological concerns in online translation community research: a reflexive netnography on translator's communal habitus.
PERSPECTIVES-STUDIES IN TRANSLATION THEORY AND PRACTICE, 30 (4).
pp. 695-710.
Abstract
This article attempts to integrate Kozinets’ netnography and Bourdieu’s reflexive sociology as a promising methodology to study the communal habitus of online translation community Fixsub. We closely examine the methodological issues encountered and orientates to address the three interrelated questions: How should a researcher posit his/her scholarly position in an online translation community? How is a researcher–participant relationship built within the virtual settings? How does a researcher balance the traditional dichotomy between subjectivity and objectivity during his/her online participation? We conclude that an online translation community research requires the researcher to have an ongoing immersion within the fieldsite, as well as in a state of participant objectivation to assess his/her own positionality in relation to the object of research and negotiate the mutual shaping between a participant and researcher.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Netnography, self-reflexivity, online translation community, participant objectivation |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Histories, Languages and Cultures |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Jul 2021 13:47 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jan 2023 21:37 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/0907676X.2021.1913196 |
| Open Access URL: | https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2021.1913196 |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3128427 |
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