Okay, lets begin with software that is useful for Cyberanthropologists.
Firstly, we have Zotero, which I is amazingly handy and useful (yes there’s a difference). This Firefox add-on allows you to manage, store and bookmark your online experience. I say “experience” because it does a lot more than just store references. It opens a horizontal window at the bottom of the Firefox window and through this allows you to capture web content, store it, link it, reference it, and so on.
NetworkX is another useful tool that can be used in conjunction with Zotero to visually represent the shape of the network. This is useful for non-cyber-anthropologists (haha, look at me go!) intersted in actor-network theory, etc.
FreeMind is a “mind-mapping” tool (if you believe in such science fiction) that is useful for the not so graphically gifted. Allowing you to make mind maps with all kinds of handy functionality.
Ideas on how to represent networks visual can be found here.
A free qualitative data analysis tool is Weft QDA. This allows you to import documents (including pdfs) and run analyses similar to those found in NVivo.
Before using these tools in the field we can use the following articles to help locate what we are trying to do, or not.
Combining ethnographic and clickstream data to identify user Web browsing strategies
by Lillian Clark, I-Hsien Ting, Chris Kimble, Peter Wright, Daniel Kudenko at the Department of Computer Science, University of York.
Virtual Ethnography by Christine Hine.
The Web of Insights by Anjali Puri.
Peace
Cyber Anthropology 