The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography
New York; London: Routledge (2017), xxiv, 494 pp.
Contains many figures, index
Series: Routledge Companions
ISBN 978-1-138-94091-8 (hbk); 978-1-315-67397-4 (ebook)
"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. The 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 and in-depth analyses of different interfaces in ethnography, from mobile technologies to digital archives." (Publisher description)
I. DEBATING DIGITAL ETHNOGRAPHY
1 Computers in/and Anthropology: The Poetics and Politics of Digitization / Mike Fortun, Kim Fortun, George E. Marcus, 11
2 From Virtual Ethnography to the Embedded, Embodied, Everyday Internet / Christine Hine, 21
3 Vectors for Fieldwork: Computational Thinking and New Modes of Ethnography / Anne Beaulieu, 29
4 A Performative Digital Ethnography: Data, Design, and Speculation / Wendy F. Hsu, 40
5 The Fieldsite as a Network: A Strategy for Locating Ethnographic Research / Jenna Burrell, 51
6 Remote Ethnography: Studying Culture from Afar / John Postill, 61
7 Mixing It: Digital Ethnography and Online Research Methods- A Tale of Two Global Digital Music Genres / Georgina Born, Christopher Haworth, 70
II. RELATIONSHIPS
8 Small Places Turned Inside-Out: Social Networking in Small Communities / Tom Mcdonald, Razvan Nicolescu, Jolynna Sinanan, 89
9 "Doing Family" at a Distance: Transnational Family Practices in Polymedia Environments / Mirca Madianou, 102
10 Researching Death Online / Luke van Ryn, Tamara Kohn, Bjorn Nansen, Michael Arnold, Martin Gibbs, 112
11 Relational Labor, Fans, and Collaborations in Professional Rock Climbing / Guillaume Dumont, 121
III. VISIBILITY AND VOICE
12 "Our Media"? Microblogging and the Elusiveness of Voice in China / Cara Wallis, Xi Cui, 135
13 Participatory Complications in Interactive, Video-Sharing Environments / Patricia G. Lange, 147
14 Influencer Extravaganza: Commercial "Lifestyle" Microcelebrities in Singapore / Crystal Abidin, 158
15 Nah Leavin' Trinidad: The Place of Digital Music Production among Amateur Musicians in Trinidad and Tobago / Sheba Mohammid, Heather Horst, 169
IV. PLACE AND CO-PRESENCE
16 Locating Emerging Media: Ethnographic Reflections on Culture, Selfhood, and Place / Jordan Kraemer, 179
17 Making "Ournet Not the Internet": An Ethnography of Home-Brew High-Tech Practices in Suburban Australia / Kat Jungnickel, 191
18 Locative Mobile Media and the Development of Unplanned, Fleeting Encounters with Pseudonymous Strangers and Virtual Acquaintances in Urban Public Places / Christian Licoppe, Julien Morel, 200
19 Mobile Media Matters: The Ethnography and Phenomenology of Itinerant Interfaces / Ingrid Richardson, Brendan Keogh, 211
20 Placing Mobile Ethnography: Mobile Communication as a Practice of Place Making / Dîdem Özkul, 221
V. PLAY
21 Digital Gaming, Social Inclusion, and the Right to Play: A Case Study of a Venezuelan Cybercafé / Tom Apperley, 235
22 /Kayfabe: An In-Depth Look at World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and Its Fandom Using Digital Ethnography / Crystile Martin, 244
23 Running, Gender, and Play with Zombies, Run! / Emma Witkowski, 252
24 Hands between the Worlds / Isabel Fróes, Susana Tosca, 263
VI. ARTS
25 Curating and Exhibiting Ethnographic Evidence: Reflections on Teaching and Displaying with the Help of Emerging Technologies / Paolo Favero, 275
26 The Art of Play: Ethnography and Playful Interventions with Young People / Larissa Hjorth, William Balmford, Sharon Greenfield, Luke Gaspard, Amani Naseem, Tom Penney, 288
27 The (Be)coming of Selfies: Revisiting an Onlife Ethnography on Digital Photography Practices / Edgar Gómez Cruz, 300
28 Mobile Filmmaking / Marsha Berry, 308
29 Curating Digital Resonance / Jennifer Deger, 318
VII. INFRASTRUCTURES
30 Instant Archives? / Haidy Geismar, 331
31 The Fortune of Scarcity: Digital Music Circulation in Cuba / Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, 344
32 An Infrastructural Approach to Digital Ethnography: Lessons from the Manchester Infrastructures of Social Change Project / Hannah Knox, 354
33 Riding the Rails of Mobile Payments: Financial Inclusion, Mobile Phones, and Infrastructure / Stephen C. Rea, Urusula Dalinghaus, Taylor C. Nelms, Bill Maurer, 363
34 Polar Infrastructures / Juan Francisco Salazar, 374
VIII. POLITICS
35 Digital Ethnography of Mobiles for Development / Sirpa Tenhunen, 387
36 Mediated Political Agency in Contested Africa / Mirjam de Bruijn, 396
37 Ethnography Beyond and Within Digital Structures and the Study of Social Media Activism / Veronica Barassi, 406
38 The Search for Wikipedia's Edges / Heather Ford, 416
39 Environmental Sensing and Control / Rirchard Beckwith, Ken Anderson, 426
IX. DESIGN
40 The Politics of Design, Design as Politics / Christo Sims, 439
41 Ethnography and the Ongoing in Digital Design / Elisenda Ardèvol, Débora Lanzeni, 448
42 Disruptive Interventions with Mobile Media through Design+Ethnography+Futures / Yoko Akama, Katherine Moline, Sarah Pink, 458
43 More-Than-Human Lab: Creative Ethnography after Human Exceptionalism / Anne Galloway, 470
44 Using Fiction to Explore Social Facts: The Laboratory of Speculative Ethnology / Elizabeth Chin, 478
1 Computers in/and Anthropology: The Poetics and Politics of Digitization / Mike Fortun, Kim Fortun, George E. Marcus, 11
2 From Virtual Ethnography to the Embedded, Embodied, Everyday Internet / Christine Hine, 21
3 Vectors for Fieldwork: Computational Thinking and New Modes of Ethnography / Anne Beaulieu, 29
4 A Performative Digital Ethnography: Data, Design, and Speculation / Wendy F. Hsu, 40
5 The Fieldsite as a Network: A Strategy for Locating Ethnographic Research / Jenna Burrell, 51
6 Remote Ethnography: Studying Culture from Afar / John Postill, 61
7 Mixing It: Digital Ethnography and Online Research Methods- A Tale of Two Global Digital Music Genres / Georgina Born, Christopher Haworth, 70
II. RELATIONSHIPS
8 Small Places Turned Inside-Out: Social Networking in Small Communities / Tom Mcdonald, Razvan Nicolescu, Jolynna Sinanan, 89
9 "Doing Family" at a Distance: Transnational Family Practices in Polymedia Environments / Mirca Madianou, 102
10 Researching Death Online / Luke van Ryn, Tamara Kohn, Bjorn Nansen, Michael Arnold, Martin Gibbs, 112
11 Relational Labor, Fans, and Collaborations in Professional Rock Climbing / Guillaume Dumont, 121
III. VISIBILITY AND VOICE
12 "Our Media"? Microblogging and the Elusiveness of Voice in China / Cara Wallis, Xi Cui, 135
13 Participatory Complications in Interactive, Video-Sharing Environments / Patricia G. Lange, 147
14 Influencer Extravaganza: Commercial "Lifestyle" Microcelebrities in Singapore / Crystal Abidin, 158
15 Nah Leavin' Trinidad: The Place of Digital Music Production among Amateur Musicians in Trinidad and Tobago / Sheba Mohammid, Heather Horst, 169
IV. PLACE AND CO-PRESENCE
16 Locating Emerging Media: Ethnographic Reflections on Culture, Selfhood, and Place / Jordan Kraemer, 179
17 Making "Ournet Not the Internet": An Ethnography of Home-Brew High-Tech Practices in Suburban Australia / Kat Jungnickel, 191
18 Locative Mobile Media and the Development of Unplanned, Fleeting Encounters with Pseudonymous Strangers and Virtual Acquaintances in Urban Public Places / Christian Licoppe, Julien Morel, 200
19 Mobile Media Matters: The Ethnography and Phenomenology of Itinerant Interfaces / Ingrid Richardson, Brendan Keogh, 211
20 Placing Mobile Ethnography: Mobile Communication as a Practice of Place Making / Dîdem Özkul, 221
V. PLAY
21 Digital Gaming, Social Inclusion, and the Right to Play: A Case Study of a Venezuelan Cybercafé / Tom Apperley, 235
22 /Kayfabe: An In-Depth Look at World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and Its Fandom Using Digital Ethnography / Crystile Martin, 244
23 Running, Gender, and Play with Zombies, Run! / Emma Witkowski, 252
24 Hands between the Worlds / Isabel Fróes, Susana Tosca, 263
VI. ARTS
25 Curating and Exhibiting Ethnographic Evidence: Reflections on Teaching and Displaying with the Help of Emerging Technologies / Paolo Favero, 275
26 The Art of Play: Ethnography and Playful Interventions with Young People / Larissa Hjorth, William Balmford, Sharon Greenfield, Luke Gaspard, Amani Naseem, Tom Penney, 288
27 The (Be)coming of Selfies: Revisiting an Onlife Ethnography on Digital Photography Practices / Edgar Gómez Cruz, 300
28 Mobile Filmmaking / Marsha Berry, 308
29 Curating Digital Resonance / Jennifer Deger, 318
VII. INFRASTRUCTURES
30 Instant Archives? / Haidy Geismar, 331
31 The Fortune of Scarcity: Digital Music Circulation in Cuba / Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, 344
32 An Infrastructural Approach to Digital Ethnography: Lessons from the Manchester Infrastructures of Social Change Project / Hannah Knox, 354
33 Riding the Rails of Mobile Payments: Financial Inclusion, Mobile Phones, and Infrastructure / Stephen C. Rea, Urusula Dalinghaus, Taylor C. Nelms, Bill Maurer, 363
34 Polar Infrastructures / Juan Francisco Salazar, 374
VIII. POLITICS
35 Digital Ethnography of Mobiles for Development / Sirpa Tenhunen, 387
36 Mediated Political Agency in Contested Africa / Mirjam de Bruijn, 396
37 Ethnography Beyond and Within Digital Structures and the Study of Social Media Activism / Veronica Barassi, 406
38 The Search for Wikipedia's Edges / Heather Ford, 416
39 Environmental Sensing and Control / Rirchard Beckwith, Ken Anderson, 426
IX. DESIGN
40 The Politics of Design, Design as Politics / Christo Sims, 439
41 Ethnography and the Ongoing in Digital Design / Elisenda Ardèvol, Débora Lanzeni, 448
42 Disruptive Interventions with Mobile Media through Design+Ethnography+Futures / Yoko Akama, Katherine Moline, Sarah Pink, 458
43 More-Than-Human Lab: Creative Ethnography after Human Exceptionalism / Anne Galloway, 470
44 Using Fiction to Explore Social Facts: The Laboratory of Speculative Ethnology / Elizabeth Chin, 478
