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 digitization



2. From virtual ethnography to the embedded, embodied, everyday Internet



3. Vectors for fieldwork: computational thinking and new modes of ethnography



4. A performative digital ethnography: data, design, and speculation



5. The fieldsite as a network: a strategy for locating ethnographic research



6. Remote ethnography: studying digital politics in Spain and Indonesia from afar



7. Mixing it: digital ethnography and online research methods—a tale of two global digital music genres



Part II – Relationships



8. Small places turned inside out: social networking in small communities



9. "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 Voice



12. "Our media"? Microblogging and the elusiveness of voice in China



13. Participatory complications in interactive, video-sharing environments



14. Influencer extravaganza: a decade of commercial "lifestyle" microcelebrities in Singapore



15. Nah Leavin’ Trinidad: the place of digital music production among amateur musicians in Trinidad



Part IV – Place and Co-Presence



16. Locating emerging media: ethnographic reflections on culture, selfhood, and place



17. Making "ournet not the Internet": an ethnography of homebrew high-tech practices in suburban Australia



18. Locative mobile media and the development of unplanned, fleeting encounters with pseudonymous strangers, and virtual acqu