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Digital environments: ethnographic perspectives across global online and offline spaces
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Abstract 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... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
digitalization; anthropology; culture; digital media; Internet; media; social media; sociology; virtualization; world; science
Classification
Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnosociology
Interactive, electronic Media
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Document language
English
Publication Year
2017
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
268 p.
Series
Edition Medienwissenschaft, 34
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839434970
ISBN
978-3-8394-3497-0
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0