The Digital Ethnography Initiative (DEI) is delighted to invite you to a talk by Dr. John Postill (RMIT), one of the key international scholars in the field of digital ethnography. The talk will be hybrid (University of Vienna and online) and followed by a discussion. Date: June 11, 2024Time: 17.00-18.30 CETPlace: HS-C, Department of Social […]
DEI goes VANDA2024! We are excited to announce that the CfP for our panel at the Vienna Anthropology Days is now online. The conference will take place Sept. 23 – Sept. 26, 2024.
Svenja Kunze** and Leslie Gauditz*** Good research data management is an essential to digital ethnography but also a challenging process. A wealth of information must be filtered along the lines of the research interests, but also collected, sorted, and stored in a technically and ethically appropriate way. Thereby, this process has many similarities with the […]
Suzana Jovicic and Simone Pfeifer** In 2014, US-based associate anthropology professor Matthew Durington held a class on game design. One of the anthropology games developed by his students was the card game “Cards Against Anthropology“, based on the classic party game “Cards Against Humanity”. The aim is for players to playfully engage with ethically ambiguous […]
Lea Georgia Locker, Freyja Coreth and Marie Vodicka* This blog post was created for the seminar “The Materiality and Visuality of Social Media” by Philipp Budka for the MA program “CREOLE – Cultural Differences and Transnational Processes” at the University of Vienna. We can observe that gender-based violence against women is still present in many […]
This year, DEI went into the holiday season by introducing the recently published Special Issue “Across Mobile Online and Offline Spaces: Reflections on Methods, Practices, and Ethics” (ed. by Katja Kaufmann & Monika Palmberger) and discussing some of participants’ projects over vegetarian snacks and local wine. Thank you to all the DEI friends and blog contributors […]
Taylor Dube* This blog post is a revision of a text written in collaboration with Melanie Strobl for the seminar “The Materiality and Visuality of Social Media” by Philipp Budka for the MA program “CREOLE – Cultural Differences and Transnational Processes” at the University of Vienna. Taking a knee to take a stand Social media […]
Syntia Hasenöhrl* Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many scholars had to transfer their research into the digital. At first sight, this seems to tie in with a trend in social sciences that moves towards objectivist big data approaches and neglects personal interactions (Leurs, 2017, p.131ff). Against this trend, digital ethnographers have been practicing […]
Martin Slama* The realm of the digital is a quintessentially modern one in the sense that it is geared towards constantly producing new things, be that apps, platforms, devices etc. For the inhabitants of this realm – producers or consumers of the digital or both at once – novelty and being up-to-date is often a […]
It was our pleasure to organize the Master Class Participatory Digital Ethnography together with the Vienna Visual Anthropology Lab and the Visual Studies Platform (CEU). The public co-lecture (Nov. 9, 2021) by Darcy Alexandra (University of Bern) and Koen Leurs (Utrecht University) was a great inspiration and attracted a large and diverse audience. The succeeding […]
