Vol. 85: Doing Ethnography in Digital Fields. Research methods for digital everyday life
Digital technologies and procedures challenge ethnographic research and its methods in many ways. Not only the fields in which ethnographers do research have long been permeated by the ubiquity of the digital; ethnographers also make use of digital tools and procedures in their own research practice, in data collection and analysis. And even conventional ethnographic methods such as participant observation, field notes, interviews, and document analysis are changing under conditions of the digital. This volume of KA Notizen brings together contributions that propose innovative methods for an ethnography of the digital and and, at the same time, a digital ethnography. Firmly anchored in the tradition of ethnographic research, the contributions present hands-on examples, critical reflections, and practical tips that are especially useful for teaching. They cover a wide range of topics, such as participant observation on YouTube, social media ethnography, the study of computer code as part of ethnographic research, and research data management and re-use of research data. Furthermore, the volume includes a German translation of the pioneering text Rethinking Digital Anthropology by Tom Boellstorff.
Eckhardt, Dennis & Martina Klausner (eds.) (2023): Doing Ethnography in Digital Fields. Research methods for digital everyday life. Kulturanthropologie Notizen 85.
