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With the increase of digital and networked media in everyday life,
researchers have increasingly turned their gaze to the symbolic and
cultural elements of technologies. From studying online game
communities, locative and social media to YouTube and mobile media,
ethnographic approaches to digital and networked media have helped
to elucidate the dynamic cultural and social dimensions of media
practice. The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography provides
an authoritative, up-to-date, intellectually broad, and
conceptually cutting-edge guide to this emergent and diverse area.
Features include: a comprehensive history of computers and
digitization in anthropology; exploration of various ethnographic
methods in the context of digital tools and network relations;
consideration of social networking and communication technologies
on a local and global scale; in-depth analyses of different
interfaces in ethnography, from mobile technologies to digital
archives.
Location Technologies in International Context offers the first
international account of location technologies (in an expanded
sense) and brings together a range of contributions on these
technologies and their various cultures of use within the Global
South. This collection asks: How, within the Global South, do
location technologies differ across national markets,
geo-linguistic communities and cultural contexts? What are the
contrasting or shared meanings and practices associated with
location technologies? And what innovative practices and new (or
reinvigorated) theory may emerge from attention to the Global
South? In exploring these questions, the collection contributes to
our understanding of social, cultural, gendered and political
relations on a global and local scale. Location Technologies in
International Context is ideal for a range of disciplines,
including cultural, communication and media studies; anthropology,
sociology and geography; new media, Internet and mobile studies;
and informatics and development studies.
Few modern innovations have spread quite so quickly as the cell
phone. This technology has transformed communication throughout the
world. Mobile telecommunications have had a dramatic effect in many
regions, but perhaps nowhere more than for low-income populations
in countries such as Jamaica, where in the last few years many
people have moved from no phone to cell phone. This book reveals
the central role of communication in helping low-income households
cope with poverty. The book traces the impact of the cell phone
from personal issues of loneliness and depression to the global
concerns of the modern economy and the transnational family. As the
technology of social networking, the cell phone has become central
to establishing and maintaining relationships in areas from
religion to love. The Cell Phone presents the first detailed
ethnography of the impact of this new technology through the
exploration of the cell phone's role in everyday lives.
How are intergenerational relationships playing out in and through
the digital rhythms of the household? Through extensive fieldwork
in Tokyo, Shanghai and Melbourne, this book ethnographically
explores how households are being understood, articulated and
defined by digital media practices. It investigates the rise of
self-tracking, quantified self and informal practices of care at
distance as part of contemporary household dynamics.
With the increase of digital and networked media in everyday life,
researchers have increasingly turned their gaze to the symbolic and
cultural elements of technologies. From studying online game
communities, locative and social media to YouTube and mobile media,
ethnographic approaches to digital and networked media have helped
to elucidate the dynamic cultural and social dimensions of media
practice. The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography provides
an authoritative, up-to-date, intellectually broad, and
conceptually cutting-edge guide to this emergent and diverse area.
Features include: a comprehensive history of computers and
digitization in anthropology; exploration of various ethnographic
methods in the context of digital tools and network relations;
consideration of social networking and communication technologies
on a local and global scale; in-depth analyses of different
interfaces in ethnography, from mobile technologies to digital
archives.
Location Technologies in International Context offers the first
international account of location technologies (in an expanded
sense) and brings together a range of contributions on these
technologies and their various cultures of use within the Global
South. This collection asks: How, within the Global South, do
location technologies differ across national markets,
geo-linguistic communities and cultural contexts? What are the
contrasting or shared meanings and practices associated with
location technologies? And what innovative practices and new (or
reinvigorated) theory may emerge from attention to the Global
South? In exploring these questions, the collection contributes to
our understanding of social, cultural, gendered and political
relations on a global and local scale. Location Technologies in
International Context is ideal for a range of disciplines,
including cultural, communication and media studies; anthropology,
sociology and geography; new media, Internet and mobile studies;
and informatics and development studies.
This sharp, innovative book champions the rising significance of
ethnographic research on the use of digital resources around the
world. It contextualises digital and pre-digital ethnographic
research and demonstrates how the methodological, practical and
theoretical dimensions are increasingly intertwined. Digital
ethnography is central to our understanding of the social world; it
can shape methodology and methods, and provides the technological
tools needed to research society. The authoritative team of authors
clearly set out how to research localities, objects and events as
well as providing insights into exploring individuals' or
communities' lived experiences, practices and relationships. The
book: Defines a series of central concepts in this new branch of
social and cultural research Challenges existing conceptual and
analytical categories Showcases new and innovative methods
Theorises the digital world in new ways Encourages us to rethink
pre-digital practices, media and environments This is the ideal
introduction for anyone intending to conduct ethnographic research
in today's digital society.
This sharp, innovative book champions the rising significance of
ethnographic research on the use of digital resources around the
world. It contextualises digital and pre-digital ethnographic
research and demonstrates how the methodological, practical and
theoretical dimensions are increasingly intertwined. Digital
ethnography is central to our understanding of the social world; it
can shape methodology and methods, and provides the technological
tools needed to research society. The authoritative team of authors
clearly set out how to research localities, objects and events as
well as providing insights into exploring individuals' or
communities' lived experiences, practices and relationships. The
book: Defines a series of central concepts in this new branch of
social and cultural research Challenges existing conceptual and
analytical categories Showcases new and innovative methods
Theorises the digital world in new ways Encourages us to rethink
pre-digital practices, media and environments This is the ideal
introduction for anyone intending to conduct ethnographic research
in today's digital society.
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