Digital Ethnography: Works Cited

Below you can find articles and books that guided my methodological, epistemological, and historical  understanding of digital ethnographic research: 

  • Abidin, Crystal and  de Seta, Gabriele. 2020. Private “Messages from the Field: Confessions on Digital  Ethnography and Its Discomforts.” Journal of Digital Social Research. 2 (1): 1-19

  • Boellstorff, Tom. 2008. Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

  • Benedict, Ruth. 1946. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture. Boston: Houghton Mifflin

  • Douglas, Mary. 1 983. Risk and Culture: An Essay in the Selection of Technical and Environmental Dangers. Berkeley: University of California Press.

  • Fabian, Johannes. 1983. Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.

  • Favret-Saada, Jeanne.  1 980. Deadly Words: Witchcraft in the Bocage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  • Fischer, Michael. 2007. “Four Genealogies for a Recombinant Anthropology of Science and Technology.” Cultural Anthropology, 22 (4): 539-615.

  • Hine, Christine. 2005. Virtual Methods: Issues in Social Research on the Internet. Oxford & New York: Berg.

  • Ito, Mizuko. 1997. “Virtually Embodied: The Reality of Fantasy in a Multi-User Dungeon” in Porter, David (ed.) Internet Culture. New York: Routledge. 87-110

  • Latour, Bruno. 1991. We Have Never Been Modern. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press

  • Marcus, George. 1995. “Ethnography in/of the World System.” Annual Review of Anthropology, 24, 95–117.

  • Marcus, G. (2011). “Multi-sited ethnography: Five or Six Things I know about It Now.” In Coleman, Simon & von Hellerman, Pauline (Eds.). Multi-sited ethnography. London, England: Routledge

  • Miller, Daniel. 2011. Tales from Facebook. Cambridge, UK & Malden, MA: Polity Press.

  • Miller, Daniel & Slater, Don. 2000. The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach. Oxford & New York: Berg.

  • Nader, Laura. 1972. “Up the Anthropologist: Perspectives Gained from Studying Up.” In: Hymes, Dell (ed.) Reinventing Anthropology. New York, NY: Pantheon Books. 284-311.

  • Pink, Sarah et al. 2015. Digital Ethnography: Principles and Practice. London: Sage Publications. 79-99

  • Postill, John. 2017. “Remote Ethnography: Studying Culture from Afar.” In: Hjorth, Larissa, Horst, Heather, Galloway, Anne, and Bell, Genevieve (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography. New York and London: Routledge. 61-69.

  • Schrooten, Mieke. 2016. “Writing eFieldnotes: Some Ethical Considerations.” Sanjek, Roger and Tratnere, Susan W. (eds.). Fieldnotes : The Makings of Anthropology in the Digital World. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press. 78-93

  • Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. 2003. “Anthropology and the Savage Slot: The Poetics and Politics of Otherness.” In: Global Transformations. Palgrave Macmillan, New York.

  • Willis, Paul. 2000. The Ethnographic Imagination. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.

  • Zonabend, Francoise. 1 989. La presqu ‘ile au nucleaire. Paris: Odile Jacob

If you are interested in reading a selection of these readings or if you are an instructor looking for readings to assign for a module on filed drawings and ethnographic sketches, I suggest this list of readings. In addition to articles and books, I also suggest these other resources.