Dear All,
Due to the uncertainties surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, the Vienna Anthropology Days 2020 will be
organized online (Sept. 28- Oct. 1, 2020 vanda.univie.ac.at/).
We warmly invite you to submit a proposal to our session „Digital Ethnography: Revisiting Theoretical Concepts and
Methodological Approaches.“ The conference organizers have extended the deadline to July 1.
For the details of our session, please see below. To submit a proposal, navigate to:
vanda.univie.ac.at/call-for-papers/
Please let us know if you have any questions.
Best wishes,
Monika and Philipp
Conference
Vienna Anthropology Days (VANDA) 2020
Date & Venue
28 September – 1 October, online hosted by the University of Vienna
Panel
Digital Ethnography: Revisiting Theoretical Concepts and Methodological
Approaches
Organizers
Philipp Budka (University of Vienna)
Monika Palmberger (University of Vienna)
Abstract
Ethnographic research has the potential to dig deep into mediated
personal relationships as well as into socio-technical relations in an
increasingly digitized and digitalized world (e.g., Hjorth et al. 2017;
Horst & Miller, 2012; Pink et al., 2016). In order to do so,
ethnographers and anthropologists have engaged with a variety of digital
and multimodal methods such as online ethnographic fieldwork and
participant observation, digital storytelling, mobile and visual media
elicitation, digital media biographies, and digital video re-enactments
(e.g., Pink et al., 2016). Their research has opened up new knowledge
horizons such as the changing emotional, normative or symbolic
dimensions of complex social relations and cultural practices entangled
with new digital media technologies.
This session provides room for critical and ethical reflections on
theory and methodology in the field of digital anthropology/ethnography,
including, but not limited to, the following questions:
Which theoretical concepts are particularly fruitful in the ethnographic
and anthropological exploration of digital phenomena?
How are such concepts entangled with methodological approaches and
challenges, for example by reconsidering issues of collaboration,
decolonization, confidentiality or intimacy?
How can we do participant observation when communication and interaction
are increasingly ‚individualized‘ and veiled due to digital
technologies, particularly the smartphone?
Which forms of collecting, interpreting and representing empirical data
do we aspire for?
This session invites presenters to revisit previous discussions and
critically reflect upon current relevant debates in anthropology and
beyond. Papers may be empirically, methodologically or theoretically
driven.
Deadline & Submission
Please submit your paper abstracts (max. 350 words) online via the
conference system the latest by July 1, 2020:
vanda.univie.ac.at/call-for-papers/
———–
Dr. Monika Palmberger
ksa.univie.ac.at/palmberger-monika
kuleuven.academia.edu/MonikaPalmberger
recent publications:
Relational ambivalence: Exploring the social and discursive dimensions of ambivalence—The case of Turkish aging labor migrants.
International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 2019.
2019: Why alternative memory and place-making practices in divided cities matter
Space and Polity, 2019.
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