be traced back. NESH´ guidelines further state that it is eventually up to the researchers himor herself to consider whether or not the information is ethical to use (NESH, 2019). The
pictures and quotes of the post shared in this thesis are published in a domain where I
consider them intentionally published as public, and/or the people involved have given their
consent.
After some time, the two Facebook-profiles somewhat blended as I gained more and more
friends that became closer. During my fieldwork oral consent strategy was mainly used, with
emphasis on the clarity of my work. The people I met regularly for six months were informed
and asked several times to make sure they understood my work and that I would write down a
lot of what we talked about. More importantly, I wanted to make sure they knew that they
were allowed to say no and tell me when specific information was talked about amongst
friends only, not to be used in research. This was done on some occasions and respected by
me. Whenever I would meet people in more official and formal situations, I used business
cards printed ahead of my fieldwork, and they contained all my information and a short
description of the focus areas in my work. The project was notified and registered by NSD
(Norwegian Center For Research Data) prior to the beginning of my fieldwork.
During my fieldwork, I stayed in Myanmar under a business-visa from Telenor Myanmar.
Through contacts in Telenor Norway, I was connected to their office in Yangon and was
supposed to do a small task for Telenor Myanmar. Because of miscommunication and internal
changes in Telenor, my project never came to anything. I had, however, already collected
some information, but regarding the circumstances, we agreed that I would instead have a
lecture of basic research skills for the office’s employees working with development of
content. Once more, with my time running out, and even though I had prepared text ready, we
were never able to find a suitable date. This thesis and the empirical data used is not
connected in any way to Telenor Norway or Telenor Myanmar and never have been since I
was clear on separating the two projects from the beginning. Even though a project with
Telenor never became a reality, I am grateful for my visa, for the insights I gained through the
collaboration and pleasant conversation from the Telenor employees both in Yangon and
Oslo. Through contacts from Yangon, I was able to present an early analysis of my data at a
workshop called Migratory Models in Myanmar in October 2018 at the University in
Konstanz, Germany. This workshop was financed by the Center of Excellence 16: Cultural
Foundations of Social Integration, University of Konstanz. During these days, I gained insight
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