Digital Fieldwork

Reflections on, and resources and references for, innovative digital field research | [email protected]

[Digital Fieldwork @digital_fw]

🚨 CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Have you transitioned to digital fieldwork during the pandemic? Used digital tools in past fieldwork?

Share your experience and insights with us! Use this form to submit a reflection proposal.

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New on Digital Fieldwork: Beth Buggenhagen reflects on conducing museum anthropology digitally during COVID-19: https://t.co/S2UMGT23Tv

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Mneesha Gellman's recent reflection focuses on an ethics of care for digital fieldwork. Read her contribution, our newest on Digital Fieldwork: https://t.co/5q1HFVOw2U

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New on Digital Fieldwork! Read @jannisgrimm's Reflection on balancing the tradeoffs between convenience and security in digital fieldwork: https://t.co/CKRHz8sVNA cc: @LahraSmith1 @LaurenMMacLean2

[Digital Fieldwork @digital_fw]

Read Digital Fieldwork's latest Reflection from Elizabeth Wanucha, who gives some tips for hosting virtual research workshops that she gathered from her experience during the pandemic with @CIRSGUQ
https://t.co/gt5wZckgcf

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[Digital Fieldwork @digital_fw]

"...think of this digital turn less as a complete rupture and more as an intensification of the use of these methods"
– from our latest reflection, Inequality and the Digital Turn in Research by Ato Onoma

https://t.co/oAflhnojcN
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[Digital Fieldwork @digital_fw]

"Our research findings heavily depend on, and are as good as, the quality of interviews conducted."

Read our newest reflection from Mohammad Isaqzadeh about his experience conducting research in Afghanistan remotely using phone surveys:
https://t.co/70GNyEosew

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[Digital Fieldwork @digital_fw]

Doing Digital Ethnography

Ethnographic Café and Rutgers Digital Ethnography Working Group are co-hosting an event on April 8 about the craft of digital ethnography. More information on our website!

https://t.co/isRdPj4THB

[Digital Fieldwork @digital_fw]

Have you read our latest reflection yet?

Thomas Benson on his experience conducting digital fieldwork with city officials in the US and the UK: https://t.co/cCrVB15V3v

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[Lucie RigaRaï @LRigarai]

via @raulpacheco vitally important conversation to have 🙏

[Lahra Smith @LahraSmith1]

Thanks for sharing my schedule highlights @ASANewsOnline. I have a number of panels, talks and Keynotes I am excited to attend next week. See you all at the 2021 ASA Annual meeting!

[Lahra Smith @LahraSmith1]

Great piece by @DHirschelBurns -- he writes about the ethical decisions one makes about choosing not to conduct remote or digital fieldwork. @anthrogirrrl @digital_fw
https://t.co/4FNXxzD9Dx

[Digital Fieldwork @digital_fw]

A terrific thread from @colleenwood_ in response to @DHirschelBurns, on the problems and possibility of rapport in digital contexts.

[Colleen Wood @colleenwood_]

I enjoyed reading @DHirschelBurns's reflections on deciding not to pursue digital ethnography for his dissertation. A lot of food for thought for me, someone who very much leaned in on digital ethnography and interviews to make my dissertation happen

[Digital Fieldwork @digital_fw]

"...in-person ethnographic fieldwork provides an incomparable sense of place for locations and themes about which it is difficult to learn about digitally." @DHirschelBurns discusses his decision not to conduct #DigitalFieldwork in Colombia: https://t.co/4U8jbsINja

[Digital Fieldwork @digital_fw]

This new Reflection pairs well with @Jamiejhagen's discussion of the feminist ethics of declining fieldwork:

https://t.co/wOqZ7q3cZb

From @Anne_Kreft: "How ethical is it to demand the time and energy of civil society...when they're in the process of recuperating post-pandemic?"

[Digital Fieldwork @digital_fw]

@colleenwood_ Ooh, this would be a great reflection in conversation with @Noah5872Noah’s!

[Colleen Wood @colleenwood_]

Rapport looks and feels different online, and we should definitely keep thinking about the conditions that make digital ethnography more or less appropriate as a method for different research questions and field sites. Hence the @digital_fw blog, I suppose :)

[Digital Fieldwork @digital_fw]

@Noah5872Noah @DHirschelBurns @Dan_E_Solo Great! I’ll send a note from the info<at>dfw account.

[Colleen Wood @colleenwood_]

I enjoyed reading @DHirschelBurns's reflections on deciding not to pursue digital ethnography for his dissertation. A lot of food for thought for me, someone who very much leaned in on digital ethnography and interviews to make my dissertation happen

[Digital Fieldwork @digital_fw]

@Noah5872Noah @DHirschelBurns @Dan_E_Solo And / or, can the loss of digital fieldwork be recovered?

[Digital Fieldwork @digital_fw]

@Noah5872Noah @DHirschelBurns We’d love to have you write something about this! I (@Dan_E_Solo) think this aligns well with a positive dimension of recent work on reflexivity and emotions in ethnographic work. i.e., can there be joy in the digital?

[Danny Hirschel-Burns @DHirschelBurns]

Why I decided not to do digital fieldwork for my dissertation during the pandemic