into other current research from different disciplines as well as good feedback for further
reflections on my work.
Reflecting notes
With all ethnographic work, it is essential to recognize that they have particular limitation and
that the ethnographer gained her or his information in a particular context that produces the
specific outcome of the situation. A mentioned earlier, how I look and where I am from
affected the situations I entered and how people could look at me, how they talked, and what
they talked about with me. My interests have affected which people I got in touch with and
what kind of data I collected. Therefore, my collection of informants consists of people with
sound technical knowledge and understanding and often would have opinions of how things
should be. Their attitudes and the information they told me would color my view as well, and
even though I aim at not choosing a particular side throughout the thesis, my understanding is
to some extent affected by one side of the narrative. The argumentation could have looked
different if I had a different selection of informants, and I would probably not have a chapter
quite as technical as chapter 4. I consider this chapter as important topic to address, but this is
made possible through informants that had the competence and knowledge to elaborate it for
me. In other conversations and group-talks, we could address fonts, but not in such detail and
have a more focus on the sociality surrounding this technology.
This work focused on young adults living in Yangon. I can therefore not say with certainty
that my findings are valid for every local user of all ages, all levels of English, and in all part
of Myanmar. From my experiences and through the descriptions I received, it can be
reasonable to assume that similar interpretations, experience, and challenges are accurate also
in rural areas and for people of all ages. However, this claim is outside my range of
informants and my information and would require extensive research focusing on rural areas
and a decent level of Burmese language skills.
The thesis does not address and elaborate religion in Myanmar or Yangon other than
acknowledging that the main religion is Buddhism and that this is a part of the frames in my
field. During my fieldwork, I chose not to focus on religion specifically, but rather on the
people and their relationship with the internet and smartphones. It could be interesting to see
how the Buddhistic faith would play out in this field, but with the thesis’ limitations
considering space, and without sufficient empirical data as support, this is not explored
further.
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