The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography

Larissa Hjorth is Distinguished Professor and Director of HDR in the College of Design and Social Context at RMIT University and was co-founding (with Professor Heather Horst) Director of RMIT’s Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC). Heather Horst is Professor in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University and Director, Research Partnerships in the College of Design and Social Context at RMIT University. She was the director of DERC from 2012-2015. Anne Galloway is Senior Lecturer in Culture+Context Design at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Genevieve Bell is currently a Senior Fellow and Vice President at Intel Corporation where she works in their Corporate Strategy Office, driving long-term strategic visioning and insights.

Part I – Debating Digital Ethnography 1. Computers in/and anthropology: the poetics and politics of digitization2. From virtual ethnography to the embedded, embodied, everyday Internet3. Vectors for fieldwork: computational thinking and new modes of ethnography4. A performative digital ethnography: data, design, and speculation5. The fieldsite as a network: a strategy for locating ethnographic research6. Remote ethnography: studying digital politics in Spain and Indonesia from afar7. Mixing it: digital ethnography and online research methods—a tale of two global digital music genresPart II – Relationships8. Small places turned inside out: social networking in small communities9. Doing family at a distance: transnational family practices in polymedia environments 10. Researching death online 11. Relational labor, fans, and collaborations in professional rock climbing Part III – Visibility and Voice12. Our media? Microblogging and the elusiveness of voice in China13. Participatory complications in interactive, video-sharing environments14. Influencer extravaganza: a decade of commercial lifestyle microcelebrities in Singapore15. Nah Leavin’ Trinidad: the place of digital music production among amateur musicians in TrinidadPart IV – Place and Co-Presence16. Locating emerging media: ethnographic reflections on culture, selfhood, and place17. Making ournet not the Internet: an ethnography of homebrew high-tech practices in suburban Australia18. Locative mobile media and the development of unplanned, fleeting encounters with pseudonymous strangers, and virtual acqu