Crypto-hopes at times of crisis: Ethnographic examination of cryptocurrency trading in Istanbul

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.

Structure & Function in Modern Society: On the Power of Social Anthropology in a Big Data World

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.

Whatever works: digital ethnography as a flat methodology

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.

Digital Unsettling: Decoloniality and Dispossession in the Age of Social Media

With Professor Sahana Udupa

Digital Unsettling is a critical exploration of digitalization that puts contemporary “decolonizing” movements into conversation with theorizations of digital communication.

OxDEG – Exploring the Flat Earth: Beliefs, Identity, and Rationality

With Dr Peaks Krafft

OxDEG is pleased to welcome Dr. Peaks Krafft to deliver this online session

Oxdeg Seminar Open Source Justice: Digital Archives and the Criminal State, with Ronald Niezen

The first Oxford Digital Ethnography Talk of Trinity Term

OxDEG: The performance of (many) selves in everyday digital life: immersive cohabitation and self-portraiture as a viable ethnographic method

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'.

OxDEG: Civic Technology and ethnography: navigating theory, politics and power

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.

OxDEG: Deceitful media: Artificial Intelligence and social life after the Turing Test

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.

OxDEG: Do we need a canonised digital social research?

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.

OxDEG Digital Ethnographic Methods Surgery 2

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.