[Commlist] Masterclass (Post)Digital Ethnography: from Participant Observation to Collaborative Approaches

please join Simone Pfeifer (GRK “anschließen-ausschließen”, University 
of Cologne) and myself (Suzana Jovicic, University of Vienna) for the 
/Cologne-Siegen Masterclass for Media Ethnography///on *(Post)Digital 
Ethnography: from Participant Observation to Collaborative 
Approaches* on 24-26 November 2022.

The master class is jointly organized by the SFB Media of Cooperation of 
the University of Siegen and the Department of Cultural and Social 
Anthropology of the University of Cologne and will take place in 
Cologne. There is no participation fee.

The course is primarily directed at Master and PhD students with their 
own projects who are interested in learning more about the hands-on 
practices of (post)digital ethnography with a critical perspective. 
Interested participants who are not currently working on their own 
research project are also welcome to contact us.

Please register for this masterclass with a short email detailing your 
(planned) research interest/project and how it relates to digital 
ethnography (max. 500 words) to Simone Pfeifer ((s.pfeifer /at/ uni-koeln.de)) 
and Suzana Jovicic ((suzana.jovicic /at/ univie.ac.at))* by 14th of November 
2022. *

For more information please see the information below.

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https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/de/veranstaltungen/koeln-siegener-meisterklasse-fuer-medienethnographie-digitale-ethnographie/ 

https://ethnologie.uni-koeln.de/content.php?kid=479


*Abstract:*

In contemporary anthropological research, digital media and technologies 
such as smartphones are part of almost all fields and themes. At the 
latest since the COVID-19 pandemic, many anthropologists are paying more 
attention to ‘the digital’ in its manifold manifestations, not only as a 
subject of study but moreover as a means of fieldwork. While ‘the 
digital’ in digital ethnography is often used synonymously with “remote” 
(Walton 2018, Postill 2017) or “virtual”, online-only ethnography (Hine 
2001, Boellstorff et. Al. 2012), in this masterclass we encourage a 
“postdigital” approach to digital ethnography. “The postdigital” points 
beyond the online/offline or analogue/digital divide (without dismissing 
it entirely) and allows us to investigate the situatedness of digital 
media, smartphones and related practices in everyday life through a 
critical lens. (Post)Digital Ethnography in our sense encompasses a 
range of methods and approaches that we will explore through hands-on 
exercises in this masterclass. The aim of this workshop is therefore to 
examine (post)digital research practices in the context of increasingly 
personalised devices such as the smartphone and discuss them in light of 
the participants’ research designs. Practical exercises on participant 
observation or collaborative methods in groups will alternate with open 
discussions and short impulse presentations.

The guiding questions for the exercises and discussions include (but are 
not limited to):

        ·How to access the field?

        ·How to present/position oneself, also in ‘online’ contexts?

        ·How to integrate smartphones into conversations? How to
        negotiate access to individualised, sometimes very private
        information in ethical ways?

        ·How to observe and participate on social media and other 
platforms?

        ·How to deal with audio-visual material?

        ·What are the legal and ethical challenges of archiving,
        analysing or creating audio-visual materials as part of your
        research?

        ·How to integrate various collaborative and participatory
        approaches?

        ·Reflecting on ethical challenges, asymmetries, power dynamics
        and questions of (digital) positionality will guide our
        exercises in and with the digital.

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