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Digital technology permeates the physical world. Social media and virtual reality, accessed via internet capable devices – computers, smartphones, tablets and wearables – affect nearly all aspects of social life.
The contributions to this volume apply innovative forms of ethnographic research to the digital realm. They examine the emergence of new forms of digital life, such as political participation through comments on East Greenlandic news blogs, the personal use of video broadcasting applications, the rise of transnational migrant networks facilitated by social media, or the effects of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram on global conflicts.
Urte Undine Frömming is professor at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Freie Universität Berlin and head of the Research area Visual and Media Anthropology.
Steffen Köhn is the program coordinator of the M.A. program in Visual and Media Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin.
Samantha Fox is currently a PhD candidate in Anthropology at Columbia University in New York.
Mike Terry is research associate at the Research Area »Visual and Media Anthropology« at Freie Universität Berlin.
Frontmatter 1
Content 5
Foreword 9
Digital Environments and the Future of Ethnography 13
A Comment on East Greenland Online 25
Welcome Home 39
How has the Internet Determined the Identity of Chilean Gay Men in the Last Twenty Years? 53
Red Packets in the Real and Virtual Worlds 67
Antifeminism Online 77
Exploring the Potentials and Challenges of Virtual Distribution of Contemporary Art 97
Blind and Online 117
How Has Social Media Changed the Way We Grieve? 127
Watch Me, I'm Live 143
Hair, Blood and the Nipple 159
Berlin. Wie bitte? 171
An Exploration of the Role of Twitter in the Discourse Around Race in South Africa 195
Migration, Political Art and Digitalization 211
"You're Not Left Thinking That You're The Only Gay in the Village" 227
Finding a Visual Voice 239
Google A Religion 251
Notes on Contributors 263