Digital Environments

• Other Authors: Frömming, Urte Undine, Köhn, Steffen, Fox, Samantha, Terry, Mike
• Language: English
• Published: transcript Verlag 2017
• Subjects: Media and Communications; Digital Anthropology; Virtual Worlds; Social Media; Media Anthropology; Digital Culture; Media; Internet; Digital Media; Sociology of Media; Media Studies; Facebook; Instagram; Red envelope; Twitter; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies; greenlandic
• Online Access: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31485; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12657/31485

Digital technology already has permeated the physical world. Devices such as smartphones, tablets or wearables and online venues like virtual worlds and social networks have penetrated every part of our lives. The contributions to this volume apply innovative forms of ethnographic research to the digital realm. They examine the emergence of new online communities around Greenlandic news blogs or Malaysian LGBT Facebook groups, the rise of transnational migrant networks facilitated by social media, or the representation of conflicts and the proliferation of ideologies within online spaces.