The Preservation of Embodied Masculinity in Rural Tech-Altered Workplaces

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?

Field Events: Re-Conceptualizing the Field through Research with Digital Technologies

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.

Green as Ambient Sensibility: CGI Renderings and the Felt Experience of Southeast Asian Eco-Cities

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.

The ‘precarity’ of doing digital ethnography

With See Pok Loa

This presentation unveils the black box of how ethnographers navigate uncertainties and develop their research in a digital setting.

Improvisation & Partisanship in a Global Pandemic: Insights From Educational Ethnography

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

Understanding contemporary China through digital anthropology

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.

Technological rituals among Berlin dating app users

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.

Freedom, Precarity, and Debt: Ethnographic Research on Platform-Based Taxi Drivers and Food Delivery Riders in China

With Hongshan Wang

This research challenges existing theories on platform work and destabilises Eurocentric critiques of neoliberalism.

The World of Wikipedia: Research, Teaching, and Social Engagement

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.

Glocks, Animal Emoji, and ‘Rulay’: How Cartel-Related Gangs Recruit Young Ecuadorians through Viral Content on TikTok

With Professor Gabriel Brito

This talk explores the under-researched yet highly relevant phenomenon of cartel-related gang recruitment via social media.

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.