Digital Environments: Ethnographic Perspectives Across Global Online and Offline Spaces (Edition Medienwissenschaft)

Digital technology permeates the physical world. Social media and virtual reality, accessed via internet capable devices - computers, smartphones, tablets and wearables - affect nearly all aspects of social life. The contributions to this volume apply innovative forms of ethnographic research to the digital realm. They examine the emergence of new forms of digital life, such as political participation through comments on East Greenlandic news blogs, the personal use of video broadcasting applications, the rise of transnational migrant networks facilitated by social media, or the effects of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram on global conflicts. Content Foreword Digital Environments and the Future of Ethnography Part 1. Digital Communities and the Re-Creation of the Self and Social Relationships Online A Comment on East Greenland Online Welcome Home How has the Internet Determined the Identity of Chilean Gay Men in the Last Twenty Years? Red Packets in the Real and Virtual Worlds Antifeminism Online Exploring the Potentials and Challenges of Virtual Distribution of Contemporary Art Blind and Online How Has Social Media Changed the Way We Grieve? Watch Me, I’m Live Part 2. Political Digital Environments and Activism Online Hair, Blood and the Nipple Berlin. Wie bitte? An Exploration of the Role of Twitter in the Discourse Around Race in South Africa Migration, Political Art and Digitalization “You’re Not Left Thinking That You’re The Only Gay in the Village” Finding a Visual Voice Google A Religion Notes on Contributors

Digital technology permeates the physical world. Social media and virtual reality, accessed via internet capable devices - computers, smartphones, tablets and wearables - affect nearly all aspects of social life.The contributions to this volume apply innovative forms of ethnographic research to the digital realm. They examine the emergence of new forms of digital life, such as political participation through comments on East Greenlandic news blogs, the personal use of video broadcasting applications, the rise of transnational migrant networks facilitated by social media, or the effects of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram on global conflicts.

Digital technology already has permeated the physical world. Devices such as smartphones, tablets or wearables and online venues like virtual worlds and social networks have penetrated every part of our lives. The contributions to this volume apply innovative forms of ethnographic research to the digital realm. They examine the emergence of new online communities around Greenlandic news blogs or Malaysian LGBT Facebook groups, the rise of transnational migrant networks facilitated by social media, or the representation of conflicts and the proliferation of ideologies within online spaces.