I wrote a conceptual microchapter on Representation for Practicing Digital Ethnography. the book isn't published yet but it looks like it is already on Google Books and my whole microchapter is available. Here is the link in case you are interested: https://books.google.com.mx/books?id=HR-dEQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage

#DigitalEthnography #InternetStudies

Practicing Digital Ethnography

Practicing Digital Ethnography offers a comprehensive introduction to the essential methods, concepts, and practices of conducting ethnographic research in digital environments.Written by 60 global contributors across 12 chapters with accompanying case studies and concept explorations, this book provides both theoretical foundations and practical guidance for digital ethnographic work. It covers research approaches for diverse digital contexts, including social media, virtual spaces, video games, and hybrid physical-technological settings, while addressing the deployment of tools like artificial intelligence, big data, mapping technologies, and multimodal methodologies. This book examines ethical challenges specific to digital research environments while maintaining a commitment to reflexive, co-present research that acknowledges how our interactions with digital technologies transcend boundaries of citizenship, race, gender identity, age, and ability.Practicing Digital Ethnography is ideal for students and researchers in anthropology, media studies, science and technology studies, and communications who seek to understand contemporary hyper-mediated environments, as well as professionals outside academia who need practical, accessible guidance for conducting rigorous digital research.

Google Books

Hoy empieza mi viaje a la Feria Internacional del Libro en Guadalajara para presentar el nuevo libro de Adriana.

#FIL #Guadalajara #InternetStudies #DigitalEthnography

Lots of conversation about entering and exiting the field in #DigitalEthnography, with some anxieties around the divide between lurking and participant observation, and around our obligations to ties to participants. Some relevant cites from Gabriele de Seta (https://cva.unifr.ch/sites/default/files/artifacts/media/pdf/three_lies_of_digital_ethnography_anthrodendum.pdf) and Christine Hine (https://www.routledge.com/Ethnography-for-the-Internet-Embedded-Embodied-and-Everyday/Hine/p/book/9780857855701) #AoIR2023
Jimil Ataman (https://anthropology.sas.upenn.edu/people/jimil-ataman) acknowledging that immersing yourself in #DigitalEthnography can be addictive - researchers are not immune to the algorithmic pull of platforms. #AoIR2023
Jimil Ataman | Department of Anthropology

Delighted to see a packed room for a discussion on #DigitalEthnography (thanks @jessalingel for bringing it to my attention) #AoIR2023
Important conversations about #DigitalEthnography, where Jeff Lane points out the need to avoid thinking of digital methods as something that can help us avoid inconvenience and awkwardness. But #ethnography SHOULD be inconvenient (for researchers) and we need to recognize the inevitability of awkwardness in the field. #AoIR2023

I’m in Philadelphia this weekend for #ASA2023!!

I’m presenting a method for improving #DigitalEthnography in the Qualitative Methods section tomorrow at 4pm

At any rate, I’d love to chat or get coffee if you are also here!

Good morning #Fediverse ! Hope you've all had a great weekend. In this morning's #ConnectionList #Introduction #Connections post, in which I help to more richly connect us together, I'd like you to meet:

@ZoeGlatt is a #PhD candidate and #DigitalEthnography #researcher, and founder of @DigitalEthnographyCollective. They (not assuming pronouns) are submitting in March and are interested in jobs researching #SocialMedia culture, #CreativeLabour and #CreativeIndustries

@ndporter is into #SocialScience, #Data and #DataEquity and works with the #Carpentries. The #Carpentries is a volunteer-driven movement to provide #researchers with foundational computational skills in technologies like #Python 🐍, #Git ⌨️ and #HPC #programming 💻

@pip works in #design for #AI at #CSIRO #ProductManagement

@safiyanoble is the author of "Algorithms of Oppression", which if you haven't read it, should be on your reading list, especially if you're into #AIethics or #FairML. It sits in a similar space to @VirginiaEubanks "Automating Inequality" and shows how algorithms serve to reinforce existing structures of oppression, particularly of POC.

@fionatribe is a #CulturalAnthropology person who is interested in #MaterialCulture, #Architecture and #Anthropology

@metasecsol works as an #InfoSec researcher at the #W3 and as a #Lecturer in #InformationSecurity #DevSecOps

Creating a milieux instance asa research creation project is a great idea. I'm totally new to this (like several COVID-addled hours new) but I already live the idea of these federated instances. Great chance to do some #DigitalEthnography for any student needing a project.

@Milieux_news @fenwick @Milieux_news

#Archaeogaming citation of the day:

Rodney Harrison. 2009. “Excavating Second Life: Cyber-Archaeologies, Heritage and Virtual Communities.” Journal of Material Culture 14.1: 75–106.

#DigitalArchaeology #CyberArchaeology #SecondLife #DigitalEthnography