Exploring Digital Ethnography: From Principles to Practice places digital ethnography within the context of the production of multimedia, multisensory “research-creation” pieces using a variety of methods, tools, and techniques.
This book provides new insights into how digital tools and concepts can facilitate the deliberation process, while they can also be used to materialize knowledge in new ways that engage with audiences in more dynamic formats. Drawing on a series of case studies on digital and interactive storytelling, digital photography and video, fictional worldbuilding, autoethnographic cartooning, and more, it demonstrates the potential of digital tools and concepts to reach new audiences and to illustrate new approaches to solving problems. The case studies presented draw, in part, on multiple elements of participatory digital archive and museum work, itself part of the larger field of participatory visual and digital methods.
Exploring Digital Ethnography: From Principles to Practice will equip readers with new ways of producing knowledge, solving problems, engaging student learning, and communicating with the public. It will be a valuable text for researchers, educators, and students in digital ethnography and anthropology, as well as related fields.
Edited by:
Natalie Underberg-Goode (University of Central Florida USA),
Marty Otañez
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Weight: 470g
ISBN: 9781032436975
ISBN 10: 1032436972
Pages: 158
Publication Date: 24 July 2025
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
Introduction to Exploring Digital Ethnography 1. Multimedia Ethnography via Comics 2. Translating Personal Experience into an Interactive Narrative 3. Design Ethnography and Digital Heritage 4. Bidi Rollers in West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh, India: A Photographic Essay 5. The Anthropology of Organic Theater: Interview with the Romero Theater Troupe’s Jim Walsh 6. Worldbuilding as Pedagogy: Teaching Anthropology and Diversity in Contentious Classrooms 7. Anonymity and Agency: Collaborative Digital Storytelling with Queer, Trans, and Non-Binary Asylum Seekers from Mexico and Central America Conclusion: Possible Futures for the Field of Digital Ethnography
Natalie Underberg-Goode is Professor and Associate Director of Games and Interactive Media at the University of Central Florida. Marty Otañez is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado Denver.
