Full Description
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.
Features include:
a comprehensive history of computers and digitization in anthropology;
exploration of various ethnographic methods in the context of digital tools and network relations;
consideration of social networking and communication technologies on a local and global scale;
in-depth analyses of different interfaces in ethnography, from mobile technologies to digital archives.
Contents
Part I - Debating Digital Ethnography 1. Computers in/and anthropology: the poetics and politics of digitization2. From virtual ethnography to the embedded, embodied, everyday Internet3. Vectors for fieldwork: computational thinking and new modes of ethnography4. A performative digital ethnography: data, design, and speculation5. The fieldsite as a network: a strategy for locating ethnographic research6. Remote ethnography: studying digital politics in Spain and Indonesia from afar7. Mixing it: digital ethnography and online research methods—a tale of two global digital music genresPart II - Relationships8. Small places turned inside out: social networking in small communities9. Doing family at a distance: transnational family practices in polymedia environments 10. Researching death online 11. Relational labor, fans, and collaborations in professional rock climbing Part III - Visibility and Voice12. Our media? Microblogging and the elusiveness of voice in China13. Participatory complications in interactive, video-sharing environments14. Influencer extravaganza: a decade of commercial lifestyle microcelebrities in Singapore15. Nah Leavin' Trinidad: the place of digital music production among amateur musicians in TrinidadPart IV - Place and Co-Presence16. Locating emerging media: ethnographic reflections on culture, selfhood, and place17. Making ournet not the Internet: an ethnography of homebrew high-tech practices in suburban Australia18. Locative mobile media and the development of unplanned, fleeting encounters with pseudonymous strangers, and virtual acqu
