The Routledge companion to digital ethnography / edited by Larissa Hjorth. [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hjorth, Larissa.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology--Methodology--Technological innovations.

Anthropology.

Ethnology--Methodology--Technological innovations.

Ethnology.

Digital media--Social aspects.

Digital media.

Computer networks--Social aspects.

Computer networks.

Information technology--Social aspects.

Information technology.

Information society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (520 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Companion to digital ethnography

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2017.

Summary:

With the increase of digital and networked media in everyday life, researchers have increasingly turned their gaze to the symbolic and cultural elements of technologies. From studying online game communities, locative and social media to YouTube and mobile media, ethnographic approaches to digital and networked media have helped to elucidate the dynamic cultural and social dimensions of media practice. The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography provides an authoritative, up-to-date, intellectually broad, and conceptually cutting-edge guide to this emergent and diverse area.

Contents:

The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography- Front Cover

The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Provocations: The Future of Digital Ethnography

Interdisciplinary Iterations

Data Ethnographies

Making and Theorizing Change

References

PART I: Debating Digital Ethnography

Chapter 1: Computers in/and Anthropology: The Poetics and Politics of Digitization

Writing Cultural Critique, Digitally

From Open Access to Open Data

Interpretation and Annotation as Data in a Feverish Archive

Collaboration and Explanatory Pluralism

Valuing Noise and Kaleidoscopic Logics

Notes

Chapter 2: From Virtual Ethnography to the Embedded, Embodied, Everyday Internet

Science and Technology Studies (STS)

Fieldsites in Various Forms

Immersion and Reflexivity

Conclusion

Chapter 3: Vectors for Fieldwork: Computational Thinking and New Modes of Ethnography

Rethinking Ethnography and Digital Technology

Field of Tropes

Mediated Ethnography

Computational Ethnography

Getting Access to the Field

Follow the Actors

Going Beyond Formal Accounts

Studying Everyday Practice

Note

Chapter 4: A Performative Digital Ethnography: Data, Design, and Speculation

Performative Materiality and Design

In-Process Engagement with Digital Fragments

Speculative and Participatory Ethnography

Conclusion: From Ethnography to Social Actions

Chapter 5: The Fieldsite as a Network: A Strategy for Locating Ethnographic Research

Locating the Field in Cyberspace

Constructing a Fieldsite: Lessons Learned

Acknowledgment.

References

Chapter 6: Remote Ethnography: Studying Culture from Afar

A Problem of Legitimacy

From a Safe Distance

Planned and Unplanned

Being Then

Twin Anxieties

Chapter 7: Mixing It: Digital Ethnography and Online Research Methods- A Tale of Two Global Digital Music Genres

Enhancing Issue Crawler: Digital Anthropology Meets Digital Sociology

Microsound: Modernism Migrates and Expands Online

Vaporwave: Tumblr as a Parodic and Politicized Creative Platform

Conclusions

PART II: Relationships

Chapter 8: Small Places Turned Inside-Out: Social Networking in Small Communities

Comparative Ethnography

Cases from Small Places: Communities, Non-Confrontation and Experimentation

Non-confrontational Public Social Media: Trinidad

Exploring New Sociality: Rural China

Chapter 9: "Doing Family" at a Distance: Transnational Family Practices in Polymedia Environments

Transnational Families, Polymedia and Ethnography

The Empirical and Research Contexts

The Migrant Mothers

The "Left-Behind" Families

Polymedia and Ethnography

Chapter 10: Researching Death Online

Persistence and Personhood through Social Media

How to Study the Dead Online

Social Media Commemoration: The Case of Zyzz

Comparative Analysis of Different Platforms

Media, Death, Memory

Take-Homes for Digital Ethnography

Chapter 11: Relational Labor, Fans, and Collaborations in Professional Rock Climbing

Building and Managing Relationships with Fans

A Glimpse into Relational Labor

Social Media, Relationships Building, and Economic Vitality

The Collaborative Labor of Online Refereeing

Conclusion.

Notes

PART III: Visibility and Voice

Chapter 12: "Our Media"? Microblogging and the Elusiveness of Voice in China

The Chinese Internet: From Bulletin Board Systems to Microblogs

Theorizing Voice

Methodology

Weibo as "Our Media"

Weibo as Voice without a Voice

Social Differentiation and the Denial of Voice

Chapter 13: Participatory Complications in Interactive, Video-Sharing Environments

Participation and Sociality

The Business of Sharing Video

Artifactual Commentary

Video Alterations

Chapter 14: Influencer Extravaganza: Commercial "Lifestyle" Microcelebrities in Singapore

From Microcelebrity to Influencers

Followers

Communication

Commerce

Impact

Self-Branding and the Self

A Decade and Beyond

Chapter 15: Nah Leavin' Trinidad: The Place of Digital Music Production among Amateur Musicians in Trinidad and Tobago

Music Production in Trinidad and Tobago

Making Music: Accessing, Learning and Production Resources Online

Making Connections: Engaging in Communities of Practice

Making It on YouTube: Reaching Audiences and Increasing Fans

Making It Big "Out There"

Place, Music and Mobility

PART IV: Place and Co-presence

Chapter 16: Locating Emerging Media: Ethnographic Reflections on Culture, Selfhood, and Place

Introduction: Space, Place, Media

"The Other Side of the Street Is a Bad Neighborhood"

Emerging Spatialities

European Transnationalism on Social Media

Chapter 17: Making "Ournet Not the Internet": An Ethnography of Home-Brew High-Tech Practices in Suburban Australia

Stumbling for Digital Noise on a Suburban Rooftop

Placing a Digital Ethnography.

Why Wi-Fi?

The Visual Culture of Wi-Fi

Making Sense of Digital Suburbia

Chapter 18: Locative Mobile Media and the Development of Unplanned, Fleeting Encounters with Pseudonymous Strangers and Virtual Acquaintances in Urban Public Places

Research Methods

Meeting Strangers in the Street in Goffman's Metropolis: Georges Perec at the Terrace of a Parisian Café

A Foursquare Encounter: Re-specifying Strangers

An Ingress Encounter in the Street

Chapter 19: Mobile Media Matters: The Ethnography and Phenomenology of Itinerant Interfaces

Ethnographic Phenomenology, Phenomenological Ethnography

The Materiality and Embodiment of (Mobile) Media

Acknowledgment

Chapter 20: Placing Mobile Ethnography: Mobile Communication as a Practice of Place Making

Mobile Communication: From "Spatial Turn" to "Locational Turn"

Mobility

From Space to Location through Mobile Media

"Place" in the Ethnographic Approaches to Mobile Communication

PART V: Play

Chapter 21: Digital Gaming, Social Inclusion, and the Right to Play: A Case Study of a Venezuelan Cybercafé

Cybercafé Avila

Digital Play as a Right

Chapter 22: /Kayfabe: An In-Depth Look at World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and Its Fandom Using Digital Ethnography

Brief History of Wrestling

Making of a "Smark"

Professional Wrestling Fandom Goes Digital

Impact of Digital Ethnography on Professional Wrestling

Digital Ethnography and Professional Wrestling Going Forward

Chapter 23: Running, Gender, and Play with Zombies, Run!

Entering the Digital Apocalypse

Sensuous Digital Ethnography

Moving with Networked Play.

Women Who Play with Running

Chapter 24: Hands between the Worlds

Methodological Approach

Hands of Perception

Hands On

Hands in Motion

PART VI: Arts

Chapter 25: Curating and Exhibiting Ethnographic Evidence: Reflections on Teaching and Displaying with the Help of Emerging Technologies

Background: Performing the Documentary

Mixing Technologies: Exploring the Streets in Delhi, Antwerp and Mumbai

Conclusions: Toward a Serendipitous Multimodal Ethnography

Chapter 26: The Art of Play: Ethnography and Playful Interventions with Young People

Art Meets Ethnography Meets Play

Introducing The Art of Play

Play Intervention Workshops

Playful Interventions

Chapter 27: The (Be)coming of Selfies: Revisiting an Onlife Ethnography on Digital Photography Practices

Introduction to an Ethnography of Photography Practices

From Kodak Culture to Networked Image

Self-Portraits: The Paradigmatic Practice of Digital Photography-An Ethnographic Finding

Chapter 28: Mobile Filmmaking

Being Co-present in Mobile Media Ecologies

Playing in Mobile Media Ecologies

Participating in Mobile Media Ecologies

Concluding Remarks

Chapter 29: Curating Digital Resonance

Phone-Made Media from Arnhem Land

Gapuwiyak Calling at the American Museum of Natural History

GAPUWIYAK CALLING: phone-made media from Aboriginal Australia

Maybe You'll Answer?

PART VII: Infrastructures

Chapter 30: Instant Archives?

Understanding Archives

Archival Models

Instagram as Archive

The Unruly Archive

Classification

Regulation

Corporate.

Social Media Archives as a Form of "Civil Imagination".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781315673974

1315673975

9781317377788

1317377788

9781317377771

131737777X

OCLC:

966398122