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P02


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Cross cultural case studies in digital research 
Convenors:
Joanne Byrne (La Trobe University)
Alex Pavlotski (La Trobe University)
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Format:
Panel
Sessions:
Tuesday 30 November, -
Time zone: Australia/Sydney

Short Abstract:

As a discipline, COVID has made anthropology confront outdated assumptions about digital research. We seek ethnographic or theoretical papers discussing the affordances and challenges of digital methods

Long Abstract:

The digital and the social are intimately entwined. Currently, outdated assumptions about the ease and transferability of traditional methods to digital social spaces understate the complexity of this research. We have been debating the boundaries of the field since the 1980s but COVID has made us viscerally face the amorphousness of space, time, field, and home. So too, contemporary digital ethnographic work confronts methodological and ethical dilemmas; their solutions negotiated in real-time by researchers in the field. In this panel, we hope to discuss the challenges researchers face in digital fieldwork as well as share and consolidate creative solutions discovered.

This panel seeks to explore the plethora of digital methods used by contemporary ethnographers and demonstrate how people synchronously negotiate problems in the field. This allows for submissions on conceptual and methodological problems. These may relate to: data-management, digital interviewing, metadata, digital ethics, privacy, self-care, self-presentation or the reliability of users in a post-truth world.

These are open issues. This panel seeks ethnographic or theoretical papers discussing the affordances and particular challenges of anthropological digital research: (1) come up with solutions, (2) encountered a particularly wicked problem that highlights the complexity of this field that (3) would benefit from open discussion.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Monday 29 November, 2021, -
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