Title Details: | |
Digital Ethnography |
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Authors: |
Papailia, Pinelopi Petridis, Petros |
Reviewer: |
Boumparis, Nikos |
Subject: | LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ANTHROPOLOGY (NON PHYSICAL) > ETHNOGRAPHY AND ETHNOLOGY > ETHNOGRAPHIC THEORY LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ANTHROPOLOGY (NON PHYSICAL) LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ANTHROPOLOGY (NON PHYSICAL) > SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ANTHROPOLOGY (NON PHYSICAL) > ETHNOGRAPHY AND ETHNOLOGY LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ANTHROPOLOGY (NON PHYSICAL) > SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY > ANTHROPOLOGY AND MASS MEDIA LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ANTHROPOLOGY (NON PHYSICAL) > SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY > METHODOLOGY AND HISTORY IN ANTHROPOLOGY |
Keywords: |
Ethnography
Digital Culture Internet And Society Qualitative Methodologies Social Media |
Description: | |
Abstract: |
This textbook is an introduction to Digital Ethnography, a new and emerging academic field. The aim of the book is to explore the cultural and social aspects of digital media and, more generally, the new theoretical and methodological approaches that have developed to analyze the cultural, political and economic transformations accompanying the mainstream adoption of digital technologies. The textbook extends classic anthropological work on subjectivity, identity, relationality, exchange, social parameters of inequality and exclusion, the experience of time and space, human creativity and expression, etc. toward the understanding of the digital situation. At the same time, these approaches are supplemented and complicated by theories from New Media Studies. the textbook does not propose the creation of a new field of ethnographic research (i.e. "anthropology of the internet"), but instead seeks to provoke a rethinking of ethnographic method suitable for the post-human era of the database.
Topics that are examined in the textbook include: technophobia/techophilia, technodeterminism, online communities and the networked public sphere, digital humanities, social media, the database as a cultural artifact, virtual worlds, sharing culture and economies of the internet, online role-playing games, new conceptions of intellectual property (the commons), locative media, knowledge economies, collective intelligence, network politics, online youth culture, new forms of cultural production, digital storytelling. |
Table of Contents: |
1. Anthropology in Front of the Screen
2. After the Book: New Epistemologies, New Materialities 3. From Technophobia to Technoculture 4. Exchange, Sharing and Economies of the Internet 5. Online Role-Playing Games |
Linguistic Editors: |
Spanaka, Adamantia |
Technical Editors: |
Petridis, Petros |
Type: |
Undergraduate textbook |
Creation Date: | 2015 |
Item Details: | |
ISBN |
978-960-603-410-7 |
License: |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/gr |
Spatial Coverage: |
Volos - Thessaloniki |
Handle | http://hdl.handle.net/11419/6117 |
Bibliographic Reference: | Papailia, P., & Petridis, P. (2015). Digital Ethnography [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/6117 |
Language: |
Greek |
Consists of: |
1. Anthropology in Front of the Screen 2. After the Book: New Epistemologies, New Materialities 3. From Technophobia to Technoculture 4. Exchange, Sharing and the Economies of the Internet 5. Online Role-Playing Games |
Number of pages |
270 |
Version: |
Version 1.1 |
Publication Origin: |
Kallipos, Open Academic Editions |