Digital Environments Ethnographic Perspectives across Global Online and Offline Spaces Urte Undine Frömming, Steffen Köhn, Samantha Fox, Mike Terry

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Frömming, Urte Undine, Editor.

Köhn, Steffen, Editor.

Fox, Samantha, Editor.

Terry, Mike, Editor.

Series:

Edition Medienwissenschaft

Edition Medienwissenschaft 34

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Digital Anthropology; Virtual Worlds; Social Media; Media Anthropology; Digital Culture; Media; Internet; Digital Media; Sociology of Media; Media Studies;.

Local Subjects:

Digital Anthropology; Virtual Worlds; Social Media; Media Anthropology; Digital Culture; Media; Internet; Digital Media; Sociology of Media; Media Studies;.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2017

Bielefeld transcript Verlag, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Urte Undine Frömming is professor at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Freie Universität Berlin and head of the Research area Visual and Media Anthropology.

Steffen Köhn is the program coordinator of the M.A. program in Visual and Media Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin.

Samantha Fox is currently a PhD candidate in Anthropology at Columbia University in New York.

Mike Terry is research associate at the Research Area »Visual and Media Anthropology« at Freie Universität Berlin.

Summary:

Digital technology permeates the physical world. Social media and virtual reality, accessed via internet capable devices - computers, smartphones, tablets and wearables - affect nearly all aspects of social life. The contributions to this volume apply innovative forms of ethnographic research to the digital realm. They examine the emergence of new forms of digital life, such as political participation through comments on East Greenlandic news blogs, the personal use of video broadcasting applications, the rise of transnational migrant networks facilitated by social media, or the effects of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram on global conflicts.

Besprochen in: GMK-Newsletter, 3 (2017) Anthropos, 113 (2018), Philipp Budka

Contents:

Frontmatter 1 Content 5 Foreword 9 Digital Environments and the Future of Ethnography 13 A Comment on East Greenland Online 25 Welcome Home 39 How has the Internet Determined the Identity of Chilean Gay Men in the Last Twenty Years? 53 Red Packets in the Real and Virtual Worlds 67 Antifeminism Online 77 Exploring the Potentials and Challenges of Virtual Distribution of Contemporary Art 97 Blind and Online 117 How Has Social Media Changed the Way We Grieve? 127 Watch Me, I'm Live 143 Hair, Blood and the Nipple 159 Berlin. Wie bitte? 171 An Exploration of the Role of Twitter in the Discourse Around Race in South Africa 195 Migration, Political Art and Digitalization 211 "You're Not Left Thinking That You're The Only Gay in the Village" 227 Finding a Visual Voice 239 Google A Religion 251 Notes on Contributors 263

Notes:

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ISBN:

9783839434970

3839434971

OCLC:

979755056

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access