This seminar series gathers leading scholars and practitioners to reflect on how ethnography is adapting to the study of heavily-mediated worlds.
With Prof Maja Hojer Bruun
Public debates often cast AI as a threat to professional expertise, risking deskilling & redundancy, or a technical fix that enhances efficiency & liberates time. In this talk, I argue that expertise is learned practice that is continuously evolving
With Dr Jenna Burrell
How do communities respond when the livestock auction becomes internet connected, drones replace cowboys for monitoring cattle, and a Facebook data center becomes the newest employer in town?
With Dr Tanja Ahlin
Based on experience with fieldwork by phone, webcams and through various communication applications, this talk explores ways in which the technologies that researchers engage with influence our field that cannot be clearly defined in spatial terms.
With Prof Brent Luvaas
In this talk, Prof Brent discusses the affective and imaginative work that CGI renderings engage in, as well as the material landscapes they help shape, structure, and instill with meaning.
With See Pok Loa
This presentation unveils the black box of how ethnographers navigate uncertainties and develop their research in a digital setting.
With Dr Akira Shah
Reflect on improvisation's role in constructing ethnography and consider renewed debates between ethnographers over the appropriateness of digital ethnography sparked by the pandemic
With Prof Daniel Miller, Chun Liu, Zheng Ken, and Xiang Kunyu
We will challenge the meaning of the term digital, create a path for the future of anthropology and show how China is changing as a result of digital technologies.
With Dr Fabian Broeker
Taking a relational approach to users and technology, Fabian will aim to highlight how dating apps form a tool in the experiential narrativisation of users’ romantic lives in the city.
With Hongshan Wang
This research challenges existing theories on platform work and destabilises Eurocentric critiques of neoliberalism.
With Prof Heather J. Sharkey
Professor Heather J Sharkey discussed ways of using Wikipedia in universities to teach research and writing skills and develop knowledge among students who can contribute to the platform as part of their coursework.
With Professor Gabriel Brito
This talk explores the under-researched yet highly relevant phenomenon of cartel-related gang recruitment via social media.
With Wesam Hassan
This research paper is rooted in an 18-month ethnographic study of individuals actively engaged in economic speculation in Turkey during the 2021-2022 economic crisis.
With Dr Kate Sieck
This talk invites us to return to the vision that inspired Social Anthropology, and re-consider the possibilities within theory for transforming data into useful, nuanced information.
With Dr John Postill
Dr Postill argues for the versatility of digital ethnography as a ‘flat methodology’ that need not elevate any one method, not even participant observation.
With Professor Sahana Udupa
Digital Unsettling is a critical exploration of digitalization that puts contemporary “decolonizing” movements into conversation with theorizations of digital communication.
With Dr Peaks Krafft
OxDEG is pleased to welcome Dr. Peaks Krafft to deliver this online session
The first Oxford Digital Ethnography Talk of Trinity Term
With Dr Joshua Bluteau
Dr Joshua Bluteau will discuss his paper 'The performance of (many) selves in everyday digital life: immersive cohabitation and self-portraiture as a viable ethnographic method'.
With Dr Andrew Schrock, Cyd Harrell, and Alex Blandford
A small panel comprising of Dr Andrew Schrock, Cyd Harrell and Alex Blandford will discuss the ways that qualitative research, political power and technology meet in government internet projects.
With Professor Simone Natale
Professor Simone Natale will argue that AI resides also, and especially, in the perception of human users. This talk will present materials from his new monograph, Deceitful Media: Artificial Intelligence and Social Life after the Turing Test.
With Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri
The Oxford Internet Institute welcomes Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri for this Digital Ethnography webinar session on the extent of innovation that the digital world is bringing to research.
We will be running a second instalment of our ethnographic methods surgery, where students and researchers can bring questions about their project to receive advice from organisers and attendees.
The Oxford Internet Institute is excited to welcome Thomas Hillman from The University of Gothenburg for his OxDeg talk 'Studying the situatedness of social photography in museums, science centres and zoos'.
This seminar series, created by the Oxford Digital Ethnography Group, gathers leading scholars and practitioners to reflect on how ethnography is adapting to the study of heavily-mediated worlds.
With Professor David Zeitlyn, Nate Rosenblatt, and Dr Greetje (Gretta) Corporaal
This seminar series, created by the Oxford Digital Ethnography Group, gathers leading scholars and practitioners to reflect on how ethnography is adapting to the study of heavily-mediated worlds.
This meeting is to re-establish who we are as OxDEG, and what we will be doing in the coming year.
This seminar series, created by the Oxford Digital Ethnography Group, gathers leading scholars and practitioners to reflect on how ethnography is adapting to the study of heavily-mediated worlds.
David Simon will be speaking about his fieldwork-based research, and then discussing the role of method in his approach.
With Professor Eric T. Meyer, Dr Bernie Hogan, and Professor David Zeitlyn
Anthropological Responses to the idea of Big Data: a discussion
Juliano Spyer will be speaking about his fascinating research on social media in Brazil, which is part of his forthcoming book on the subject - ‘Social Media in Emergent Brazil’ (UCL Press 2016)
This seminar series gathers leading scholars and practitioners to reflect on how ethnography is adapting to the study of heavily-mediated worlds.
