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Title Details:
Anthropology in Front of the Screen
Authors: Papailia, Pinelopi
Petridis, Petros
Reviewer: Boumparis, Nikos
Subject: LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ANTHROPOLOGY (NON PHYSICAL) > ETHNOGRAPHY AND ETHNOLOGY > ETHNOGRAPHIC THEORY
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ANTHROPOLOGY (NON PHYSICAL)
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ANTHROPOLOGY (NON PHYSICAL) > SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ANTHROPOLOGY (NON PHYSICAL) > ETHNOGRAPHY AND ETHNOLOGY
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ANTHROPOLOGY (NON PHYSICAL) > SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY > ANTHROPOLOGY AND MASS MEDIA
LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES > ANTHROPOLOGY (NON PHYSICAL) > SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY > METHODOLOGY AND HISTORY IN ANTHROPOLOGY
Keywords:
Ethnography
Digital Culture
Internet And Society
Qualitative Methodologies
Social Media
History Of The Internet
Description:
Abstract:
This introductory chapter lays out our approach to digital ethnography in relation both to the discipline and the methodology of social and cultural anthropology and to the study of the internet and digital culture more generally.

The first part of the chapter examines (and critiques) dominant approaches to digital culture in anthropology (the internet of "Others", the Internet as Elsewhere). Avoiding an additive logic (anthropology of the internet as a new "field"), we demonstrate how the reality of digital sociality itself has brought anthropological theory and method to its limits.

The second part of the chapter presents a brief history of the Greek internet. Our aim is not to situate the ethnography of the internet "in Greece" (as a case study, derivative of a global history of the internet being written elsewhere), but to demonstrate some of the experiences, referential contexts and spheres of creativity that emerge in particular local, political-historical settings such as the Greek one.
Table of Contents:
1.1. Introductory Comments
1.2. The Internet as Ethnographic "Field"
1.3. The Greek Internet
1.4. Bibliography
Type: Chapter
Creation Date: 2015
Item Details:
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/gr
Spatial Coverage: Volos - Thessaloniki
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/6118
Bibliographic Reference: Papailia, P., & Petridis, P. (2015). Anthropology in Front of the Screen [Chapter]. In Papailia, P., & Petridis, P. 2015. Digital Ethnography [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/6118
Language: Greek
Is Part of: Digital Ethnography
Version: Version 1.1
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions