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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Roger Sanjek and Susan W. Tratner Klappentext In this volume, sixteen distinguished scholars address the impact of digital technologies on how anthropologists do fieldwork and on what they study. With nearly three billion Internet users and more than four and a half billion mobile phone owners today, and with an ever-growing array of electronic devices and information sources, ethnographers confront a vastly different world from just decades ago, when fieldnotes produced by hand and typewriter were the professional norm. Reflecting on fieldwork experiences both off- and online, the contributors survey changes and continuities since the classic volume Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology , edited by Roger Sanjek, was published in 1990. They also confront ethical issues in online fieldwork, the strictures of institutional review boards affecting contemporary research, new forms of digital data and mediated collaboration, shifting boundaries between home and field, and practical and moral aspects of fieldnote recording, curating, sharing, and archiving. The essays draw upon fieldwork in locales ranging from Japan, Liberia, Germany, India, Jamaica, Zambia, to Iraqi Kurdistan, and with diaspora groups of Brazilians in Belgium and Indonesians of Hadhrami Arab descent. In the United States, fieldwork populations include urban mothers of toddlers and young children, teen tech users, Bitcoin traders, World of Warcraft gamers, online texters and bloggers, and anthropologists themselves. With growing interest in both traditional and digital ethnographic methods, scholars and students in anthropology and sociology, as well as in computer and information sciences, linguistics, social work, communications, media studies, design, management, and policy fields, will find much of value in this engaging and accessibly written volume. Contributors : Jenna Burrell, Lisa Cliggett, Heather A. Horst, Jean E. Jackson, Graham M. Jones, William W. Kelly, Diane E. King, Jordan Kraemer, Rena Lederman, Mary H. Moran, Bonnie A. Nardi, Roger Sanjek, Bambi B. Schieffelin, Mieke Schrooten, Martin Slama, Susan W. Tratner. Zusammenfassung Sixteen scholars address the impact of digital technologies on how anthropologists do fieldwork and on what they study. Reflecting on fieldwork globally! they discuss shifting boundaries between home and field! ethics in online fieldwork! new forms of digital data and collaboration! and the future of fieldnote archiving. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface —Susan W. Tratner and Roger Sanjek PART I. TRANSFORMATIONS AND CONTINUITIES Chapter 1. From Fieldnotes to eFieldnotes —Roger Sanjek Chapter 2. Digital Technologies, Virtual Communities, Electronic Fieldwork: The Slow Social Science Adapts to High-Tech Japan —William W. Kelly Chapter 3. Changes in Fieldnotes Practice over the Past Thirty Years in U.S. Anthropology —Jean E. Jackson PART II. FIELDWORK OFF- AND ONLINE Chapter 4. The Digital Divide Revisited: Local and Global Manifestations —Mary H. Moran Chapter 5. Writing eFieldnotes: Some Ethical Considerations —Mieke Schrooten Chapter 6. Filesharing and (Im)Mortality: From Genealogical Records to Facebook —Martin Slama PART III. DIGITALLY Mediated Fieldwork and Collegiality Chapter 7. Doing Fieldwork, BRB: Locating the Field on and with Emerging Media —Jordan Kraemer Chapter 8. "Through a Screen Darkly": On Remote, Collaborative Fieldwork in the Digital Age —Jenna Burrell Chapter 9. Being in Fieldwork: Collaboration, Digital Media, and Ethnographic Practice —Heather A. Horst PART IV. ONLINE FIELDWORK AND FIELDNOTES Chapter 10. New York Parenting Discussion Boards: eFieldnotes for New Research Frontiers —Susan W. Tratner Chapter 11. When Fieldnotes Seem to Write Themselves: Ethn...
