Oxford Digital Ethnography Group Seminar Series

Past events

• 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.

• 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.

• 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'.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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'

• OxDEG – The Moral Machine Experiment

  29 January 2020

  OXDEG presents the first Hilary Term seminar - The Moral Machine Experiment with Edmond Awad

• 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'

• 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.

• 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".

• 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".

• 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'.

• 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"

• 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"

• 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"

• 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".

• 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".

• 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'.

• 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'.

• 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'.

• 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'.

• 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'.

• 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'.

• 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'.

• 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'.

• 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'.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Anthropological Responses to the idea of Big Data: a discussion

  1 June 2016

  Anthropological Responses to the idea of Big Data: a discussion

• 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)

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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'.

• 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.

• 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.

• Censorship and Information Controls (OxDEG)

  11 November 2014

  This session will form a roundtable discussion reflecting on the digital ethnography of censorship practices.

• Methods and tools of digital ethnography

  28 October 2014

  This seminar will focus on examining research methods in digital ethnography.

• 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.

• 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.