Oxford Digital Ethnography Group Seminar Series
This seminar series gathers leading scholars and practitioners to reflect on how ethnography is adapting to the study of heavily-mediated worlds.
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Past events
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OxDEG: Digital Ethnographic Methods Surgery 3
8 March 2021
Join us for our third ethnographic methods surgery, where we invite students and researchers to bring their methodological questions and receive advice from organisers and attendees.
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OxDEG: Deceitful media: Artificial Intelligence and social life after the Turing Test
22 February 2021
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.
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OxDEG: The performance of (many) selves in everyday digital life: immersive cohabitation and self-portraiture as a viable ethnographic method
8 February 2021
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'.
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OxDEG: Civic Technology and ethnography: navigating theory, politics and power
25 January 2021
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.
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OxDEG: Fedoras, Virgins, and Hardware: Hackathons and the social dynamics of competitive creation
30 November 2020
Siân Brooke will present her findings from research into gender at hackathons and programming competitions across the UK. The presentation builds on an ethnography of six hackathons undertaken in 2019-2020, part of the data for a forthcoming DPhil thesis
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OxDEG: Music Videos and Prosthetic Memories in Pakistan’s Coke Studio
16 November 2020
The OII is delighted to present Dr Richard Williams (SOAS University of London) and Rafay Mahmood (Habib University) for the next OxDEG session, discussing The Coke Studio in Pakistan, and it's effects on the arts in the country's narrative.
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OxDEG: Do we need a canonised digital social research?
2 November 2020
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.
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OxDEG: The Intellivision System: Video Game History, Affordance Zones, and Productive Constraint
19 October 2020
The OII is delighted to welcome Tom Boellstorff for this digital ethnography session. He is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine.
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OxDEG Digital Ethnographic Methods Surgery 2
18 June 2020
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.
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Digital Wellbeing in Practice: Examining the Effectiveness of Digital Self-Control Strategies
12 February 2020
OxDEG welcomes Ulrik Lyngs for their talk 'Digital Wellbeing in Practice: Examining the Effectiveness of Digital Self-Control Strategies'
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OxDEG – The Moral Machine Experiment
29 January 2020
OXDEG presents the first Hilary Term seminar - The Moral Machine Experiment with Edmond Awad
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OXDEG ‘Don’t forget to like, subscribe and turn on the bell notifications’
6 November 2019
We are delighted to welcome Zoë Glatt for an OxDEG talk on 'An (auto)ethnography of YouTube creators’ labour in the online video industry'
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OxDeg: Ethics Panel I
23 January 2019
Panellists will reflect on ethical challenges in the context of digital ethnography and how they overcame any hurdles by sharing their approaches.
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OxDeg: The Disappearing YouTube Archives of the Syrian War
28 November 2018
The Oxford Internet Institute is excited to welcome Dr Dima Saber from Birmingham City University for the OxDeg talk "The Disappearing YouTube Archives of the Syrian War".
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OxDeg: Answering the Call of Duty: Popular Geopolitics and Playing Virtual War
14 November 2018
The Oxford Internet Institute is excited to welcome Dr Daniel Bos from the University of Oxford for the OxDeg talk "Answering the Call of Duty: Popular Geopolitics and Playing Virtual War".
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OxDeg: Researching Data in Humanitarianism: Ethnographic challenges
31 October 2018
The Oxford Internet Institute is excited to welcome Margie Cheesman and Léa Macias for the OxDeg talk 'Researching Data in Humanitarianism: Ethnographic challenges'.
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OxDeg: Negotiating Control: Organizations & Mobile Communication
13 June 2018
The Oxford Internet Institute is excited to welcome Keri Stephens from the University of Texas for the OxDeg talk "Negotiating Control: Organizations & Mobile Communication"
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OxDeg: Passing memory: practicing theory in filmic geographies of ordinary violence in Istanbul
30 May 2018
The Oxford Internet Institute is excited to welcome Dr Asli Duru from the University of Oxford for the OxDeg talk "Passing memory: practicing theory in filmic geographies of ordinary violence in Istanbul"
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OxDeg: Face values in computer vision: research goals, ethical issues and technical limitations in facial recognition
16 May 2018
The Oxford Internet Institute is excited to welcome Giles Bergel from Oxford University for the OxDeg talk "Face values in computer vision: research goals, ethical issues and technical limitations in facial recognition"
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OxDeg: Cyber-utopian City: Revolution, Venture Capital, and the Rise of the Activist-Entrepreneur in Egypt
2 May 2018
The Oxford Internet Institute is excited to welcome Kira Allman from Oxford Human Rights Hub for the OxDeg talk "Cyber-utopian City: Revolution, Venture Capital, and the Rise of the Activist-Entrepreneur in Egypt".
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OxDeg: Helping founders grow: ethnographic potential between investors and startups in the UK
7 March 2018
The Oxford Internet Institute is excited to welcome Dr Heloise Finch-Boyer from F6S for the OxDeg talk "Helping founders grow: ethnographic potential between investors and startups in the UK".
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OxDeg: Ethnography of and in the state: perspectives on qualitative research in government service design
21 February 2018
The Oxford Internet Institute is excited to welcome Alex Blandford for the OxDeg talk 'Ethnography of and in the state: perspectives on qualitative research in government service design'.
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OxDeg: Digital detox: One Forest, Two Cities, and My Facebook
7 February 2018
The Oxford Internet Institute is excited to have Theodora Sutton, DPhil student at the OII, for the OxDeg talk 'Digital detox: One Forest, Two Cities, and My Facebook'.
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OxDeg: The Internet is for Strangers: Virtual and real modes of obligation, the case of Timor Leste
24 January 2018
The Oxford Internet Institute is excited to welcome Dominik Lukes from Saïd Business School for the OxDeg talk 'The Internet is for Strangers: Virtual and real modes of obligation, the case of Timor Leste'.
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OxDeg: Anthropology, Ethnography, and the Study of Online Sexual Offending
29 November 2017
The Oxford Internet Institute is excited to welcome Dr Jonah Rimer from the School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography for the OxDeg talk 'Anthropology, Ethnography, and the Study of Online Sexual Offending'.
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OxDeg: Introducing Project Seventy: A disruption of visual culture
15 November 2017
The Oxford Internet Institute is excited to welcome Dr. Alison Kahn from Oxford Brooke's University for the OxDeg talk 'Introducing Project Seventy:Introducing Project Seventy- a disruption of visual culture'.
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OxDeg: The impacts of official conspiracy theories: The Gezi Park protests
1 November 2017
The Oxford Internet Institute is excited to welcome Dr Türkay Salim Nefes from the Sociology Department at the University of Oxford for the OxDeg talk 'The impacts of official conspiracy theories: The Gezi Park protests'.
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OxDeg: ‘I don’t believe in my face’: the Post-Internet of Ryan Trecartin
7 June 2017
The Oxford Internet Institute is excited to welcome Naomi Vogt for her OxDeg talk ''I don't believe in my face': the Post-Internet of Ryan Trecartin'.
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OxDeg: Bull in a China Shop. Mixing Methods in a Difficult Field Research Online
24 May 2017
The Oxford Internet Institute is excited to welcome Magdalena Halina Góralska for her OxDeg talk 'Bull in a China Shop. Mixing Methods in a Difficult Field Research Online'.
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OxDeg: Studying the situatedness of social photography in museums, science centres and zoos
10 May 2017
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'.
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Use of the photovoice method in information studies
1 February 2017
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.
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OxDeg: Mixed methods and hyper-triangulation
23 November 2016
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.
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Digital Ethnography All Hands Meeting
9 November 2016
This meeting is to re-establish who we are as OxDEG, and what we will be doing in the coming year.
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OxDeg: Mixing It: Digital Ethnography, Internet-Mediated Musics, and Genre
26 October 2016
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.
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Out of sync: An ethnographically informed investigation into how different mHealth stakeholders understand efficiency in Kenya and Uganda
15 June 2016
David Simon will be speaking about his fieldwork-based research, and then discussing the role of method in his approach.
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Anthropological Responses to the idea of Big Data: a discussion
1 June 2016
Anthropological Responses to the idea of Big Data: a discussion
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The Facebook of Revelation: social media and pentecostalism’s effects on violence amongst low income Brazilians
18 May 2016
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)
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Conducting Mixed Method and Ethnographic Research in the Digital Age: Using Mobile Phones and Geospatial Internet Technologies to Collaborate With Youth on the Move
9 February 2016
This seminar series gathers leading scholars and practitioners to reflect on how ethnography is adapting to the study of heavily-mediated worlds.
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OxDeg: Why We Post
24 November 2015
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.
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Emerging conventions in digital ‘art worlds’: Production cultures of crowdsourced films
27 October 2015
Drawing on a multiyear digital ethnography of an online filmmaking community, this session provides insights into production cultures enabling crowdsourced films.
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OxDeg: Immersive Simulation and (Con)figurations of the Other
3 June 2015
This talk will set out the motivating questions and initial analytic framing of my research in progress on the problem of ‘situational awareness’ within contemporary forms of warfare.
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OxDeg: From Oxford to Kohima- continuing the narrative of a very singular archive
13 May 2015
Dr. Alison Kahn will be sharing the story of Ursula Violet Graham Bower. This is the story about how we are leading her archive back 'home'.
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In conversation with Morgan Ames
4 March 2015
Dr Ames will join us on Skype from California to talk about her current and past ethnographic research methods.
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In conversation with Gabriella Coleman
19 February 2015
Professor Coleman will be chatting via Skype about the challenges of writing about Anonymous and other hacker groups.
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Censorship and Information Controls (OxDEG)
11 November 2014
This session will form a roundtable discussion reflecting on the digital ethnography of censorship practices.
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Methods and tools of digital ethnography
28 October 2014
This seminar will focus on examining research methods in digital ethnography.
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Digital Social Networking: A Collective Out-of-Body Experience?
29 May 2014
This talk will address themes formulated by Walter Benjamin in his 1936 essay: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.
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Remix(ing) Culture, Remix(ing) Methods: Provocations for creative innovation in internet inquiry
8 May 2014
In this talk, Dr Markham discusses how remix can be used as a way of thinking about research methods.
About the Series
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. The overarching theme is digital ethnography, broadly conceived. The group aims to extend inter-disciplinary academic research and collaboration among scholars at Oxford University interested in understanding rich, qualitative approaches to researching behaviour online. It will encompass a variety of research interests within this field, including digital visual anthropology as well as a variety of qualitative, ethnographic methodologies appropriate to the study of the digital environment.