Ethnography in the digital age

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As I delve into autoethnography, I am conscious of the ordinariness of my ordinary reflections about teaching and learning. Why would I want to share this story as I journey toward a PhD? Who would want to read it. It’s not a gripping novel or a red carpet worthy performance. I’m writing about the ordinariness of my thinking.

I’ve just finished reading an article by Annette N. Markham – Ethnography in the digital internet era: From fields to flows, descriptions to inventions. It’s an interesting read with many connections to what I’m thinking and doing. I’ll have to do a graphic for this one to tease out some of the ideas. My “everyday lived experience” is confounded by the “convergence of media, the mediation and remediation of identities” so awareness and reflection is essential. This article digs into “persistent as well as emerging premisses of contemporary ethnographic practices” in this digital age.

This chapter is a final draft of a chapter published in Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research, edited by Norm Denzin & Yvonne Lincoln. Date for publication is noted to be 2016. This may be a resource/reference worth further investigation. Author contact info is amarkham@gmail.com, noted on the document.

Other work by Annette Markham [twitter connection:

  • Life Online: Researching real experience in virtual space [book] 1998.
  • Internet inquiry: Conversations about method [book, edited by Annette N. Markham and Nancy K. Baym]. 2009.
  • Markham, A., & Gamelby, A. K. (2017). Moving through digital flows: An epistemological and practical approach. In Flick, U. (Ed.). Handbook of Qualitative Data Collection (pp forthcoming). London: Sage. Final draft available here
  • Rehder, M., Pereira, G., & Markham, A. (2017). “Clip, move, adjust”: Video editing as reflexive rhythmanalysis in networked publics. Selected Papers of #AoIR2017: Proceedings of the 18th international conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. Available as March 15, 2017 blogpost version
  • Tiidenberg, K., Markham, A.N., Pereira, G., Rehder, M., Sommer, J., Dremljuga, R., & Dougherty, M. (2017). “I’m an addict” and other sensemaking devices: A discourse analysis of self-reflections of lived experience on social media. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Social Media & Society. Article No. 21. Available: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3097286.3097307
  • Markham, A. N. (2017). Remix as a literacy for future anthropology practice. In Salazar, J., Pink, S., & Irving, A. (Eds.). Anthropologies and Futures: Researching emerging and uncertain worlds (pp 225-241). Bloomsbury Press. Final draft version available in PDF from Academia.edu.

Interesting – PhD 5 day course offered in Denmark April 16-20, 2018 titled Digital Media Ethnography: Concepts, Ethics, and Methods. Lecturers are Debora Lanzeni, Katrin Tiidenberg and Annette Markham

Reference 

Markham, A. N. (2017). Ethnography in the digital era: From fields to flow, descriptions to interventions. In Denzin, N., & Lincoln, Y. (Eds.). The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research, 5th Edition (650-668). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Final Draft version available for download on academia.edu