Digital Environments
Digital Environments Ethnographic Perspectives Across Global Online and Offline Spaces /
Urte Undine Fromming, Steffen Kohn, Samantha Fox, Mike Terry.
- 1 online resource (268 p.)
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Digital technology already has permeated the physical world. Devices such as smartphones, tablets or wearables and online venues like virtual worlds and social networks have penetrated every part of our lives. The contributions to this volume apply innovative forms of ethnographic research to the digital realm. They examine the emergence of new online communities around Greenlandic news blogs or Malaysian LGBT Facebook groups, the rise of transnational migrant networks facilitated by social media, or the representation of conflicts and the proliferation of ideologies within online spaces.
9783839434970
Social Science / Media Studies
Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies
Social sciences
Electronic books.
Access copy available to the general public.
Digital technology already has permeated the physical world. Devices such as smartphones, tablets or wearables and online venues like virtual worlds and social networks have penetrated every part of our lives. The contributions to this volume apply innovative forms of ethnographic research to the digital realm. They examine the emergence of new online communities around Greenlandic news blogs or Malaysian LGBT Facebook groups, the rise of transnational migrant networks facilitated by social media, or the representation of conflicts and the proliferation of ideologies within online spaces.
9783839434970
Social Science / Media Studies
Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies
Social sciences
Electronic books.