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Spider House: Fieldwork Observation

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By coming to Spider House with an open-minded attitude of wanting to comprehend the communication interactions of the people I observed, created a passageway to achieve valid field notes. Knowing that I didn’t want to minimize my fieldwork I positioned myself on the bar with a book so that I wouldn’t distract from the observation. By creating this situation I created minimal negative consequential presence within the fieldwork observation.

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