Tanja Ahlin* When I first introduced the notion of “field events” with my co-author Fangfang Li (Ahlin and Li 2019), digital technologies were becoming more common in ethnographic fieldwork, but they were still not the most popular. Only one year after the initial publication, the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic forced ethnographers around the world […]
Kamilla Péter* This blog post is a revision of a text created for the seminar “Digital Identities and Socialities” by Philipp Budka for the MA programme “CREOLE – Cultural Differences and Transnational Processes” at the University of Vienna. All images are sketches by the author (21 January 2026), replacing copyrighted images owned by the Walt […]
Simone Pfeifer** As contact restrictions tightened last year with the developing pandemic, ever more colleagues began asking me for advice on “how to do digital ethnography”, knowing that I had been doing it since long before the virus transformed life as we knew it. Their immediate concern was “how to enter their field digitally” to transform […]
