ISBN:
9781317377771
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (521 pages)
Series Statement:
Routledge Companions
Parallel Title:
Print version Hjorth, Larissa The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography
DDC:
302.231
Abstract:
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 -- Introduction -- 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 -- References -- Chapter 2: From Virtual Ethnography to the Embedded, Embodied, Everyday Internet -- Introduction -- Science and Technology Studies (STS) -- Fieldsites in Various Forms -- Immersion and Reflexivity -- Conclusion -- References -- 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 -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 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 -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: The Fieldsite as a Network: A Strategy for Locating Ethnographic Research -- Locating the Field in Cyberspace -- Constructing a Fieldsite: Lessons Learned -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgment
Abstract:
References -- Chapter 6: Remote Ethnography: Studying Culture from Afar -- A Problem of Legitimacy -- From a Safe Distance -- Planned and Unplanned -- Being Then -- Twin Anxieties -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7: Mixing It: Digital Ethnography and Online Research Methods- A Tale of Two Global Digital Music Genres -- Introduction -- Enhancing Issue Crawler: Digital Anthropology Meets Digital Sociology -- Microsound: Modernism Migrates and Expands Online -- Vaporwave: Tumblr as a Parodic and Politicized Creative Platform -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- PART II: Relationships -- Chapter 8: Small Places Turned Inside-Out: Social Networking in Small Communities -- Introduction -- Comparative Ethnography -- Cases from Small Places: Communities, Non-Confrontation and Experimentation -- Non-confrontational Public Social Media: Trinidad -- Exploring New Sociality: Rural China -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 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 -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 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 -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 11: Relational Labor, Fans, and Collaborations in Professional Rock Climbing -- Introduction -- 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
Abstract:
Notes -- References -- 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 -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 13: Participatory Complications in Interactive, Video-Sharing Environments -- Participation and Sociality -- The Business of Sharing Video -- Artifactual Commentary -- Video Alterations -- Conclusion -- References -- 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 -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 15: Nah Leavin' Trinidad: The Place of Digital Music Production among Amateur Musicians in Trinidad and Tobago -- Introduction -- 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 -- Conclusion -- References -- 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 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 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
Abstract:
Why Wi-Fi? -- The Visual Culture of Wi-Fi -- Making Sense of Digital Suburbia -- References -- Chapter 18: Locative Mobile Media and the Development of Unplanned, Fleeting Encounters with Pseudonymous Strangers and Virtual Acquaintances in Urban Public Places -- Introduction -- 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 -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 19: Mobile Media Matters: The Ethnography and Phenomenology of Itinerant Interfaces -- Ethnographic Phenomenology, Phenomenological Ethnography -- The Materiality and Embodiment of (Mobile) Media -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- References -- 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 -- Conclusion -- References -- PART V: Play -- Chapter 21: Digital Gaming, Social Inclusion, and the Right to Play: A Case Study of a Venezuelan Cybercafé -- Introduction -- Cybercafé Avila -- Digital Play as a Right -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 22: /Kayfabe: An In-Depth Look at World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and Its Fandom Using Digital Ethnography -- Introduction -- 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 -- Note -- References -- Chapter 23: Running, Gender, and Play with Zombies, Run! -- Entering the Digital Apocalypse -- Sensuous Digital Ethnography -- Moving with Networked Play
Abstract:
Women Who Play with Running -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 24: Hands between the Worlds -- Introduction -- Methodological Approach -- Hands of Perception -- Hands On -- Hands in Motion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 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 -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 26: The Art of Play: Ethnography and Playful Interventions with Young People -- Introduction -- Art Meets Ethnography Meets Play -- Introducing The Art of Play -- Play Intervention Workshops -- Playful Interventions -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 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 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 28: Mobile Filmmaking -- Introduction -- Being Co-present in Mobile Media Ecologies -- Playing in Mobile Media Ecologies -- Participating in Mobile Media Ecologies -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- 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? -- Notes -- References -- PART VII: Infrastructures -- Chapter 30: Instant Archives? -- Understanding Archives -- Archival Models -- Instagram as Archive -- The Unruly Archive -- Classification -- Regulation -- Corporate
Abstract:
Social Media Archives as a Form of "Civil Imagination
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