RESOURCES ON DIGITAL (VISUAL) ANTHROPOLOGY & ETHNOGRAPHY

This is a selection of resources on digital visual anthropology & digital ethnography, collected via the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Visual Anthropology Network’s & Media Anthropology Network’s mailing lists.

Digital Visual Anthropology

Online resources & projects:

• 50th e-seminar of the EASA Media Anthropology Network, available at http://www.media-anthropology.net/index.php/e-seminars
• Cineducacion: http://www.cineducacion.cl/
  An audiovisual platform designed to be used as a space of information, creation and public debate regarding education. (Ricardo Greene)
• Esto es talca: http://estoestalca.cl/
  A chrono-photographic online platform that seeks to produce and display a photographic survey of the city of Talca and its transformations over time. (Ricardo Greene)
• La vie du rail: http://www.laviedurail.net/
  Interactive website on a west African train. (Anna Lisa Ramella)
• Mandoki, R., Mayer, A., Gross, J. (2016). Elderscapes. Ageing in urban South Asia. Open-access interactive documentary, available at www.uni-heidelberg.de/elderscapes
• Menzies, C. R. 2010. Our grandmothers’ garden, Youtube, available at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDC4D420B4DC80761

Literature:

• Aston, J., Gaudenzi, S., & Rose, M. (Eds.). (2017). I-Docs: The evolving practices of interactive documentary. New York: Wallflower Press. Forthcoming.
• Menzies, C. R. 2015. In our grandmothers’ garden: An indigenous approach to collaborative film. In A. Gubrium, A., K. Harper, & M. Ortanzez (Eds.), Participatory visual and digital research in action. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.
• Pink, S. (2011). Digital visual anthropology: Potentials and challenges. In M. Banks & J. Ruby (Eds.), Made to be seen: Perspectives on the history of visual anthropology. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
• Walter, F. & Grasseni, C. (Eds.). (2014). Anthrovision. Special issue “Digital visual engagements”, available at https://anthrovision.revues.org/1077

Digital Ethnography

e-Seminars of the EASA Media Anthropology Network:

• Facebook as research field and research platform: http://www.media-anthropology.net/file/eseminar_facebook.pdf
• Researching the internet: http://www.media-anthropology.net/braeuchler_eseminar.pdf

Literature:

• Boellstorff, et al. (2012). Ethnography and virtual worlds: A handbook of method. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
• Hjorth, L., et al. (Eds.). (2017). The Routledge Companion to digital ethnography, New York: Routledge. Forthcoming.
• Miller, D., et al. (2016). How the world changed social media. London: UCL Press. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1474805/1/How-the-World-Changed-Social-Media.pdf
• Pink, S., et al. (2016). Digital ethnography: Principles and practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Postill, J., & Pink, S. (2012). Social media ethnography: The digital researcher in a messy web. Media International Australia, 145(1), 123-134. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1329878X1214500114
• Sanjek, R., & Tratner, S. W. (Eds.). (2016). eFieldnotes: The makings of anthropology in the digital world. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Blog posts:

• John Postill about “doing digital ethnography”: https://johnpostill.com/2015/01/16/13-six-ways-of-researching-new-social-worlds/
• Wendy Hsu about “ethnography beyond text and print”: http://ethnographymatters.net/blog/2013/12/09/ethnography-beyond-text-and-print-how-the-digital-can-transform-ethnographic-expressions/

Research centers:

• Digital Ethnography Research Centre at RMIT University: http://digital-ethnography.com/
• Digital Ethnography at Kansas State University: http://mediatedcultures.net/