Being There, Being Then, Being Present in Digital Field Events

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 […]

Digital Identity and the Romanian Far-Right Politics: The Case of George Simion’s 2025 Presidential Campaign

Ioana-Sophia Cîrlan* This blog post is a revision of a text written for the seminar “Digital Identities and Socialities” by Philipp Budka for the MA program “CREOLE – Cultural Differences and Transnational Processes” at the University of Vienna. The power of social media to shape electoral campaigns, amplify outsider candidates, and mobilise new publics has […]