Digital Environments: Ethnographic Perspectives Across Global Online and Offline Spaces
Bielefeld: transcript (2017), 267 pp.
Contains illustrations
Series: Edition Medienwissenschaft, 34
ISBN 978-3-8394-3497-0 (ebook); 978-3-8376-3497-6 (print)
Foreword / Sarah Pink, 9
Digital environments and the future of ethnography: an introduction / Urte Undine Frömming, Steffen Köhn, Samantha Fox, Mike Terry, 13
I. DIGITAL COMMUNITIES AND THE RE-CREATION OF THE SELF AND SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS ONLINE
A comment on East Greenland online: media commenting systems as spaces for public debate with a focus on East Greenland in the Greenlandic media / Jóhanna Björk Sveinbjörnsdóttir, 25
Welcome home: an ethnography on the experiences of Airbnb hosts in commodifying their homes / Brigitte Borm, 39
How has the Internet determined the identity of Chilean gay men in the last twenty years? / Juan Francisco Riumalló Grüzmacher, 53
Red packets in the real and virtual worlds: how multi-function WeChat influences Chinese virtual relationships / Xiaojing Ji, 67
Antifeminism online: MGTOW (Men Going Their Own Way) / Jie Liang Lin, 77
Exploring the potentials and challenges of virtual distribution of contemporary art / Jonas Blume, 97
Blind and online: an ethnographic perspective on everyday participation within blind and visually impaired online communities / Olivier Llouquet, 117
How has social media changed the way we grieve? / Ellen Lapper, 127
Watch me, I'm live: Periscope and the "new-individualistic" need for attention / Dario Bosio, 143
II. POLITICAL DIGITAL ENVIRONMENTS AND ACTIVISM ONLINE
Hair, blood and the nipple: Instagram censorship and the female body / Gretchen Faust, 159
Berlin. Wie bitte? An exploration of the construction of online platforms for the mutual support of young Spanish immigrants in Berlin / Teresa Tiburcio Jiménez, 171
An exploration of the role of Twitter in the discourse around race in South Africa: using the #Feesmustfall movement as a pivot for discussion / Suzanne Beukes, 195
Migration, political art and digitalization / Sara Wiederkehr Gonzáles, 211
"You're not left thinking that you're the only gay in the village": the role of the Facebook group Seksualiti Merdeka in the Malaysian LGBT community / Veera Helena Pitkänen, 227
Finding a visual voice: the #Euromaidan impact on Ukrainian Instagram users / Karly Domb Sadof, 239
Google a religion: expanding notions of religion online / Joanna Sleigh, 251
Digital environments and the future of ethnography: an introduction / Urte Undine Frömming, Steffen Köhn, Samantha Fox, Mike Terry, 13
I. DIGITAL COMMUNITIES AND THE RE-CREATION OF THE SELF AND SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS ONLINE
A comment on East Greenland online: media commenting systems as spaces for public debate with a focus on East Greenland in the Greenlandic media / Jóhanna Björk Sveinbjörnsdóttir, 25
Welcome home: an ethnography on the experiences of Airbnb hosts in commodifying their homes / Brigitte Borm, 39
How has the Internet determined the identity of Chilean gay men in the last twenty years? / Juan Francisco Riumalló Grüzmacher, 53
Red packets in the real and virtual worlds: how multi-function WeChat influences Chinese virtual relationships / Xiaojing Ji, 67
Antifeminism online: MGTOW (Men Going Their Own Way) / Jie Liang Lin, 77
Exploring the potentials and challenges of virtual distribution of contemporary art / Jonas Blume, 97
Blind and online: an ethnographic perspective on everyday participation within blind and visually impaired online communities / Olivier Llouquet, 117
How has social media changed the way we grieve? / Ellen Lapper, 127
Watch me, I'm live: Periscope and the "new-individualistic" need for attention / Dario Bosio, 143
II. POLITICAL DIGITAL ENVIRONMENTS AND ACTIVISM ONLINE
Hair, blood and the nipple: Instagram censorship and the female body / Gretchen Faust, 159
Berlin. Wie bitte? An exploration of the construction of online platforms for the mutual support of young Spanish immigrants in Berlin / Teresa Tiburcio Jiménez, 171
An exploration of the role of Twitter in the discourse around race in South Africa: using the #Feesmustfall movement as a pivot for discussion / Suzanne Beukes, 195
Migration, political art and digitalization / Sara Wiederkehr Gonzáles, 211
"You're not left thinking that you're the only gay in the village": the role of the Facebook group Seksualiti Merdeka in the Malaysian LGBT community / Veera Helena Pitkänen, 227
Finding a visual voice: the #Euromaidan impact on Ukrainian Instagram users / Karly Domb Sadof, 239
Google a religion: expanding notions of religion online / Joanna Sleigh, 251
