Digital environments : ethnographic perspectives across global online and offline spaces /

Digital environments : ethnographic perspectives across global online and offline spaces / Urte Undine Frömming, Steffen Köhn, Samantha Fox, Mike Terry (editions.). - 1 online resource (267 pages) : illustrations - Media studies Edition Medienwissenschaft . - Media studies (Transcript (Firm)) Edition Medienwissenschaft. .

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / Sarah Pink -- Digital environments and the future of ethnography : an introduction / Urte Undine Frömming, Steffen Köhn, Samantha Fox, Mike Terry -- Part 1. Digital communities and the re-creation oof the self and social relationships online. A comment on East Greenland online : media commenting systems as spaces for public debate with a focus on East Greenland in the Greenlandic media / Jóhanna Björk Sveinbjörnsdóttir ; Welcome home : an ethnography on the experiences of Airbnb hosts in commodifying their homes / Brigitte Borm ; How has the Internet determined the identity of Chilean gay men in the last twenty years? / Juan Francisco Riumalló Grüzmacher ; Red packets in the real and virtual worlds : how multi-function WeChat influences Chinese virtual relationships / Xiaojing Ji ; Antifeminism online : MGTOW (Men Going Their Own Way) / Jie Liang Lin ; Exploring the potentials and challenges of virtual distribution of contemporary art / Jonas Blume ; Blind and online : an ethnographic perspective on everyday participation within blind and visually impaired online communities / Olivier Llouquet ; How has social media changed the way we grieve? / Ellen Lapper ; Watch me, I'm live : Periscope and the "new-individualistic" need for attention / Dario Bosio -- Part 2. Political digital environments and activism online. Hair, blood and the nipple : Instagram censorship and the female body / Gretchen Faust ; Berlin. Wie bitte? : an exploration of the construction of online platforms for the mutual support of young Spanish immigrants in Berlin / Teresa Tiburcio Jiménez ; An exploration of the role of Twitter in the discourse around race in South Africa : using the #Feesmustfall movement as a pivot for discussion / Suzanne Beukes ; Migration, political art and digitalization / Sara Wiederkehr Gonzáles ; "You're not left thinking that you're the only gay in the village" : the role of the Facebook group Seksualiti Merdeka in the Malaysian LGBT community / Veera Helena Pitkänen ; Finding a visual voice : the #Euromaidan impact on Ukrainian Instagram users / Karly Domb Sadof ; Google a religion : expanding notions of religion online / Joanna Sleigh.

Open Access

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.


In English.

9783839434970 3839434971 3837634973 9783837634976

9783837634976 10.14361/9783839434970 doi

22573/ctv1wmc19 JSTOR 100585 Knowledge Unlatched


Digital media--Social aspects.
Internet--Social aspects--Cross-cultural studies.
Social media.
Online social networks.
Cyberspace--Social aspects.
Virtual reality--Social aspects.
Ethnology.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Society and culture: general.
Media studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Media Studies.
Cyberspace--Social aspects.
Digital media--Social aspects.
Ethnology.
Internet--Social aspects.
Online social networks.
Social media.
Virtual reality--Social aspects.
Social Media
Soziokultureller Wandel
Internationaler Vergleich
Informationsgesellschaft
Interaktion
Kulturkontakt
Medienwissenschaft

digital culture. media. digital anthropology. social media. internet. digital media. media and communications. virtual worlds. media anthropology. sociology of media. media studies.


Electronic books.
Cross-cultural studies.

HM851 / .D54 2017

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