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Record Nr.

UNINA9910476935203321

Titolo

Digital Environments : Ethnographic Perspectives across Global Online and Offline Spaces / Urte Undine Frömming, Steffen Köhn, Samantha Fox, Mike Terry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2017

ISBN

9783839434970

3839434971

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Edition Medienwissenschaft ; 34

Disciplina

300

Soggetti

Digital Anthropology; Virtual Worlds; Social Media; Media Anthropology; Digital Culture; Media; Internet; Digital Media; Sociology of Media; Media Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1 Content    5 Foreword    9 Digital Environments and the Future of Ethnography    13 A Comment on East Greenland Online    25 Welcome Home    39 How has the Internet Determined the Identity of Chilean Gay Men in the Last Twenty Years?    53 Red Packets in the Real and Virtual Worlds    67 Antifeminism Online    77 Exploring the Potentials and Challenges of Virtual Distribution of Contemporary Art    97 Blind and Online    117 How Has Social Media Changed the Way We Grieve?    127 Watch Me, I'm Live    143 Hair, Blood and the Nipple    159 Berlin. Wie bitte?    171 An Exploration of the Role of Twitter in the Discourse Around Race in South Africa    195 Migration, Political Art and Digitalization    211 "You're Not Left Thinking That You're The Only Gay in the Village"    227 Finding a Visual Voice    239 Google A Religion    251 Notes on Contributors    263

Sommario/riassunto

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.

Besprochen in: GMK-Newsletter, 3 (2017) Anthropos, 113 (2018), Philipp Budka