The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography

Larissa Hjorth is Distinguished Professor and Director of HDR in the College of Design and Social Context at RMIT University and was co-founding (with Professor Heather Horst) Director of RMITs Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC). Heather Horst is Professor in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University and Director, Research Partnerships in the College of Design and Social Context at RMIT University. She was the director of DERC from 2012-2015. Anne Galloway is Senior Lecturer in Culture+Context Design at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Genevieve Bell is currently a Senior Fellow and Vice President at Intel Corporation where she works in their Corporate Strategy Office, driving long-term strategic visioning and insights.

Part I Debating Digital Ethnography 1. Computers in/and anthropology: the poetics and politics of digitization 2. From virtual ethnography to the embedded, embodied, everyday Internet 3. Vectors for fieldwork: computational thinking and new modes of ethnography 4. A performative digital ethnography: data, design, and speculation 5. The fieldsite as a network: a strategy for locating ethnographic research 6. Remote ethnography: studying digital politics in Spain and Indonesia from afar 7. Mixing it: digital ethnography and online research methodsa tale of two global digital music genres Part II Relationships 8. Small places turned inside out: social networking in small communities 9. "Doing family" at a distance: transnational family practices in polymedia environments 10. Researching death online 11. Relational labor, fans, and collaborations in professional rock climbing Part III Visibility and Voice 12. "Our media"? Microblogging and the elusiveness of voice in China 13. Participatory complications in interactive, video-sharing environments 14. Influencer extravaganza: a decade of commercial "lifestyle" microcelebrities in Singapore 15. Nah Leavin Trinidad: the place of digital music production among amateur musicians in Trinidad Part IV Place and Co-Presence 16. Locating emerging media: ethnographic reflections on culture, selfhood, and place 17. Making "ournet not the Internet": an ethnography of homebrew high-tech practices in suburban Australia 18. Locative mobile media and the development of unplanned, fleeting encounters with pseudonymous strangers, and virtual acqu