Digital Environments. Ethnographic Perspectives across Global Online and Offline Spaces
Digital technology permeates the physical world. Social media and virtual reality, accessed via internet capable devices – computers, smartphones, tablets and wearables – affect nearly all aspects of social life. The contributions to this volume apply innovative forms of ethnographic research to the...
| Published in: | The Cryosphere |
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| Other Authors: | , , , |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/2370 https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/2821 https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839434970 |
| Summary: | Digital technology permeates the physical world. Social media and virtual reality, accessed via internet capable devices – computers, smartphones, tablets and wearables – affect nearly all aspects of social life. The contributions to this volume apply innovative forms of ethnographic research to the digital realm. They examine the emergence of new forms of digital life, such as political participation through comments on East Greenlandic news blogs, the personal use of video broadcasting applications, the rise of transnational migrant networks facilitated by social media, or the effects of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram on global conflicts. Sarah Pink: Foreword Urte Undine Frömming et al.: Digital Environments and the Future of Ethnography. An Introduction Part 1: Digital Communities and the Re-Creation of the Self and Social Relationships Online Jóhanna Björk Sveinbjörnsdóttir: A Comment on East Greenland Online. Media Commenting Systems as Spaces for Public Debate with a Focus on East Greenland in the Greenlandic Media Brigitte Borm: Welcome Home. An Ethnography on the Experiences of Airbnb Hosts in Commodifying Their Homes Juan Francisco Riumalló Grüzmacher: How has the Internet Determined the Identity of Chilean Gay Men in the Last Twenty Years? Xiaojing Ji: Red Packets in the Real and Virtual Worlds. How Multi-Function WeChat Influences Chinese Virtual Relationships Jie Liang Lin: Antifeminism Online. MGTOW (Men Going Their Own Way) Jonas Blume: Exploring the Potentials and Challenges of Virtual Distribution of Contemporary Art Olivier Llouquet: Blind and Online. An Ethnographic Perspective on Everyday Participation Within Blind and Visually Impaired Online Communities Ellen Lapper: How Has Social Media Changed the Way We Grieve? Dario Bosio: Watch Me, I’m Live. Periscope and the “New-Individualistic” Need for Attention Part 2: Political digital Environments and Activism Online Gretchen Faust: Hair, Blood and the Nipple. Instagram Censorship and the Female Body Teresa Tiburcio Jiménez: Berlin. Wie ... |
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