In this volume, sixteen distinguished scholars address the impact
of digital technologies on how anthropologists do fieldwork and on
what they study. With nearly three billion Internet users and more
than four and a half billion mobile phone owners today, and with an
ever-growing array of electronic devices and information sources,
ethnographers confront a vastly different world from just decades
ago, when fieldnotes produced by hand and typewriter were the
professional norm. Reflecting on fieldwork experiences both off-
and online, the contributors survey changes and continuities since
the classic volume Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology, edited
by Roger Sanjek, was published in 1990. They also confront ethical
issues in online fieldwork, the strictures of institutional review
boards affecting contemporary research, new forms of digital data
and mediated collaboration, shifting boundaries between home and
field, and practical and moral aspects of fieldnote recording,
curating, sharing, and archiving. The essays draw upon fieldwork in
locales ranging from Japan, Liberia, Germany, India, Jamaica,
Zambia, to Iraqi Kurdistan, and with diaspora groups of Brazilians
in Belgium and Indonesians of Hadhrami Arab descent. In the United
States, fieldwork populations include urban mothers of toddlers and
young children, teen tech users, Bitcoin traders, World of Warcraft
gamers, online texters and bloggers, and anthropologists
themselves. With growing interest in both traditional and digital
ethnographic methods, scholars and students in anthropology and
sociology, as well as in computer and information sciences,
linguistics, social work, communications, media studies, design,
management, and policy fields, will find much of value in this
engaging and accessibly written volume. Contributors: Jenna
Burrell, Lisa Cliggett, Heather A. Horst, Jean E. Jackson, Graham
M. Jones, William W. Kelly, Diane E. King, Jordan Kraemer, Rena
Lederman, Mary H. Moran, Bonnie A. Nardi, Roger Sanjek, Bambi B.
Schieffelin, Mieke Schrooten, Martin Slama, Susan W. Tratner.
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