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Sep 2013
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OxDEG, the Oxford Digital Ethnography Group, comprises students and faculty members from Oxford University who discuss and share ideas about the evolution of ethnography in a heavily mediated world.
Overview
OxDEG, the Oxford Digital Ethnography Group, comprises students and faculty members from Oxford University who discuss and share ideas about the evolution of ethnography in a heavily mediated world.
The aim of this group is to provide a platform for cross-disciplinary collaboration among students and staff with interests in digital ethnography and qualitative research practice in an online environment from across the university.
In October 2011, an unofficial interdisciplinary seminar group was started by Dr William Kelly of the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography (SAME) and Dr Eric T. Meyer of the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) to provide a space for students and faculty to meet to discuss ethnographic practice in the digital realm. The positive response from students and faculty across the university led to students taking a leading role in 2013 with a small grant from the Economic and Social Research Council through Oxford’s Doctoral Training in Social Science program. This year, we will have a combination of invited speakers and seminars to engage with the latest questions and research methods in digital ethnography.
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.
The Programme
Check http://dkc.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/ for the current programme.
Contact
Be sure to sign up to the mailing list to find out more about upcoming events and seminars: ox-internet-ethnography-subscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/OxDEG
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/OXDEG
This project is ongoing.
Latest blog posts
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Digital Ethnography Group Term Card MT 2015
Date Published: 6 October 2015 - 2:18 pm
Authors: Eric Meyer
The term card for the Michaelmas OxDEG Digital Ethnography sessions is out. We look forward to seeing you there! Click the image to download ...
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Technology and Fieldwork: Ethnographic quandaries
Date Published: 2 December 2013 - 3:29 pm
Authors: Heather Ford
John McManus studies Turkish football fans in the diaspora at Oxford University’s Center on Migration, Policy and Society (Compas). Editor’s note: This event report is ...
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Christine Hine on virtual ethnography’s E3 Internet
Date Published: 29 November 2013 - 1:29 pm
Authors: Heather Ford
Christine Hine is an early pioneer of virtual ethnography and has been at the forefront of movements towards redefining ethnography for the digital age. ...
Read More Christine Hine on virtual ethnography’s E3 Internet
People
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Professor Eric T. Meyer
Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
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Dr Heather Ford
Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
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John McManus
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford
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Shireen Walton
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford
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Dr William Kelly
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford
Events
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OxDEG: Fedoras, Virgins, and Hardware: Hackathons and the social dynamics of competitive creation
30 November 2020, 15:30 - 17:00
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, 15:30 - 17:00
The OII is delighted to present Dr Richard Williams (SOAS University of London) for the next Digital Ethnography Group session, discussing The Coke Studio in Pakistan, and it's effects on the arts in the country's narrative.
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OxDEG: The Intellivision System: Video Game History, Affordance Zones, and Productive Constraint
19 October 2020, 16:30 - 18:00
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, 15:30 - 17:00
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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OxDEG – The Moral Machine Experiment
29 January 2020, 16:30 - 18:00
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, 16:30 - 18:00
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: Analogue methods in a digital world
5 June 2019, 16:30 - 18:00
OXDEG welcomes the talk 'Analogue methods in a digital world: what the Knowledge of London tells us about knowledge in the digital age' by Barclay Bram Shoemaker.
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OxDeg: The Disappearing YouTube Archives of the Syrian War
28 November 2018, 16:30 - 18:00
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, 16:30 - 18:00
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, 16:30 - 18:00
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: Ethnography of and in the state: perspectives on qualitative research in government service design
21 February 2018, 16:30 - 18:00
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, 16:30 - 18:00
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, 16:30 - 18:00
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, 16:30 - 18:00
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, 16:30 - 18:00
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, 16:30 - 18:00
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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Use of the photovoice method in information studies
1 February 2017, 16:30 - 18:00
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, 16:30 - 18:00
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, 16:30 - 18:00
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, 16:30 - 18:00
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, 16:30:00 - 18:00:00
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, 16:30:00 - 18:00:00
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, 16:30:00 - 18:00:00
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, 16:30:00 - 18:00:00
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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Emerging conventions in digital ‘art worlds’: Production cultures of crowdsourced films
27 October 2015, 16:30:00 - 18:00:00
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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Researching Virtual Worlds and Virtual Environments (OxDEG)
25 November 2014, 16:30:00 - 18:00:00
This talk will reflect on work about shared virtual worlds and virtual environments, including various methods to study them and how this field has developed.
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Censorship and Information Controls (OxDEG)
11 November 2014, 16:30:00 - 18:00:00
This session will form a roundtable discussion reflecting on the digital ethnography of censorship practices.
Videos
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OxDEG Digital Ethnographic Methods Surgery 2
Duration: 01:23:35
Date: 18 June 2020
Lockdown has presented unexpected hurdles to students and researchers hoping to conduct ethnography this year, and many have turned ... Read More OxDEG Digital Ethnographic Methods Surgery 2
Blog
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Digital Ethnography Group Term Card MT 2015
Date Published: 6 October 2015 - 2:18 pm
Authors: Eric Meyer
The term card for the Michaelmas OxDEG Digital Ethnography sessions is out. We look forward to seeing you there! Click the image to download ...
Read More Digital Ethnography Group Term Card MT 2015 -
Technology and Fieldwork: Ethnographic quandaries
Date Published: 2 December 2013 - 3:29 pm
Authors: Heather Ford
John McManus studies Turkish football fans in the diaspora at Oxford University’s Center on Migration, Policy and Society (Compas). Editor’s note: This event report is ...
Read More Technology and Fieldwork: Ethnographic quandaries -
Christine Hine on virtual ethnography’s E3 Internet
Date Published: 29 November 2013 - 1:29 pm
Authors: Heather Ford
Christine Hine is an early pioneer of virtual ethnography and has been at the forefront of movements towards redefining ethnography for the digital age. ...
Read More Christine Hine on virtual ethnography’s E3 Internet -
Digital Visual Anthropology: Envisaging the field
Date Published: 28 November 2013 - 4:02 pm
Authors: Heather Ford
Shireen Walton is a D.Phil student in Anthropology at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford and member of the Oxford Digital ...
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Glorious Backfires in Digital Ethnography: Becoming an Urban Explorer
Date Published: 12 November 2013 - 1:31 pm
Authors: Heather Ford
For four years, Bradley Garrett (@Goblinmerchant) explored abandoned hospitals, railways, tunnels and rooftops as part of his PhD ethnography studying an elite group of ...
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November 2013: Being a student ethnographer
Date Published: 7 November 2013 - 5:02 pm
Authors: Heather Ford
This month’s theme is about what it means to be a student ethnographer and is edited by Ethnomatters co-founder, Heather Ford (@hfordsa), a current DPhil ...
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