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Digital Fieldwork

Doing Digital Ethnography

This panel examines the craft of digital ethnography, or participant observation of online social spaces. We consider the promises and challenges of fieldwork in online social life, hybrid combinations of data in-real-life and online, and the future and limitations of participant observation in an increasingly digitized world.

Human Origins Research in the Time of COVID-19

Dr. Rick Potts, Director of the Smithsonian’s Human Origins Program, will share his creative response to this situation and describe how he was able to conduct a “virtual” field season at two sites in Kenya in the summer of 2021 in collaboration with colleagues from the National Museums of Kenya.

Interview: Patchwork Ethnography

Cardoza, D., Watanabe, C., Günel, G., & Varma, S. (2021). Interview: Patchwork ethnography. Society for Cultural Anthropology. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/interview-patchwork-ethnography

A Manifesto for Patchwork Ethnography

Günel, G., Varma, S., & Watanabe, C. (2020). A manifesto for patchwork ethnography. Society for Cultural Anthropology. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/a-manifesto-for-patchwork-ethnography

Migration, Gender, and COVID-19

Golesorkhi, L., Fortson, G., Riedmann, T., Harder, K.. (2021). Migration, gender, and COVID-19. APSA Migration and Citizenship Newsletter 8. https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1uNT_Nf4qqds1VVcX4zzNSwZqzBn2kpcQ