ISBN:
978-0-8122-4778-7
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 296 S
Series Statement:
Haney Foundation Series
Keywords:
Ethnologie Anthropologie
;
Feldforschung
;
Computer
;
Digitale Medien
;
Massenkommunikation
;
Internet
;
Technologie, moderne
;
Methodologie
Abstract:
Examines how anthropological fieldwork has been affected by technological shifts in the 25 years since the 1990 publication of Fieldnotes : the making of anthropology, edited by Roger Sanjek, published by Cornell University Press.
Description / Table of Contents:
From Fieldnotes to eFieldnotes -- Changes in fieldnotes practice over the past thirty years in U.S. anthropology -- The digital divide revisited : local and global manifestations -- Writing eFieldnotes : some ethical considerations -- Filesharing and (im)mortality : from genealogical records to Facebook -- Doing fieldwork, BRB : locating the field on and with emerging media -- "Through a screen darkly" : on remote, collaborative fieldwork in the digital age -- Being in fieldwork : collaboration, digital media, and ethnographic practice -- New York parenting discussion boards : eFieldnotes for new research frontiers -- When fieldnotes seem to write themselves : ethnography online -- The ethnography of inscriptive speech -- Preservation, sharing, and technological challenges of longitudinal research in the digital age -- Archiving fieldnotes? Placing "anthropological records" among plural digital worlds -- Digital engagements : fieldnotes and queries for anthropology prompted by Iraqi Kurdistan in the information age
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