The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography - Paperback

by Larissa Hjorth (Editor), Heather Horst (Editor), Anne Galloway (Editor)

With the increase of digital and networked media in everyday life, researchers have increasingly turned their gaze to the symbolic and cultural elements of technologies. From studying online game communities, locative and social media to YouTube and mobile media, ethnographic approaches to digital and networked media have helped to elucidate the dynamic cultural and social dimensions of media practice. The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography provides an authoritative, up-to-date, intellectually broad, and conceptually cutting-edge guide to this emergent and diverse area.

• a comprehensive history of computers and digitization in anthropology;
• exploration of various ethnographic methods in the context of digital tools and network relations;
• consideration of social networking and communication technologies on a local and global scale;
• in-depth analyses of different interfaces in ethnography, from mobile technologies to digital archives.

Author Biography

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 RMIT's 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.