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.
With Prof Amelia Acker
This book talk examines how data archiving processes, the computational techniques of storage, exchange, and transmission, have transformed memory practices and created new regimes of asymmetric access.
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 continuousl...
With Dr Daniel White
Drawing on fieldwork among roboticists in Japan and affective computing scientists in the UK, this presentation analyses practices of emotion modelling in computing, robotics, and anthropological theory.
With Srravya Chandhiramowuli
Despite recent advances in AI’s computational capabilities, data work—the human labour required for training, fine-tuning, and evaluating AI systems—remains indispensable to AI production.
With Dr Janet Salmons
Funny thing about change: sometimes it goes forward and sometimes it circles back. For a time, it seemed like email and user-created blogs were going extinct in favor of social media. Now those trends appear to be reversing.
With Dr Tomas Walker-Borsa
This talk offers a ground-level perspective on how a community makes sense of and adapts to new infrastructural realities. For inquiries, please email boxi.wu@oii.ox.ac.uk or yanqing.wang@oii.ox.ac.uk.
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 Tea Kamushadze
This talk explores how society assigns civic and social functions to religious structures, creating diverse interpretations of religiosity in a post-industrial, former workers’ city.
With Professor Courtney Handman
This talk will explore the argument that every species has a 'language' of its own that can be understood with machine learning, and emphasize the ways in which language is becoming polymorphous in its definitions.
