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Digital Ethnographies        1

(Digital) Ethnographic Methods        28

Ethics Resources        35

Other Resources        37

Digital Ethnographies

Abidin, C. (2020). Somewhere between here and there. Journal of Digital Social

Research, 2(1), 56-76. Available here 

Abidin, C. (2016). “Aren’t These Just Young, Rich Women Doing Vain Things Online?”:

Influencer Selfies as Subversive Frivolity. Social Media + Society, 2(2), 205630511664134. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305116641342

Abidin, C. & de Seta, G. (eds.) (2020) Special issue:Journal of Digital Social Research,

2(1). https://jdsr.se/ojs/index.php/jdsr/issue/view/3

Abidin, C., & de Seta, G. (2020). Private messages from the field. Journal of Digital

Social Research, 2(1), 1-19.

Ahlin, T. (2023). Calling Family: Digital Technologies and the Making of Transnational  

Care Collectives. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. Available here

Ahlin, T.,, & Li, F. (2019). From field sites to field events: Creating the field with

information and communication technologies (ICTs). Medicine Anthropology Theory 6(2): 1-24.doi.org/10.17157/mat.6.2.655

 

Airoldi, M. (2018) Ethnography and the digital fields of social media. International Social

Journal of  Research Methodology, Vol. 21, issue 6, pp. 661-673.

Alrasheed, G. & Lim, M. 2018. Unveiling Saudi Feminism(s): Historicization, Heterogeneity, and Corporeality in the Women’s Movements. Canadian Journal of Communication, 43(3): 461-79.

http://www.sociologiaeantropologia.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2_v10n3_XinyuanWang.pdf

Ardévol, E., & Gómez‐Cruz, E. (2012). Digital ethnography and media practices. The

international encyclopedia of media studies, 498-518.

Bagdogan, S. (2023). Hands-On(ly) Vlogging: How Turkish Muslim Women Perform “Modesty” and “Piety” in Self-Branding on Their YouTube Cooking Channels. Social Media + Society, 9(2). https://doi/10.1177/20563051231166446 

Bakardjieva, M. and Gaden, G. (2012) Web 2.0 Technologies of the Self. In Bolin, G.

(ed), Cultural Technologies. The Shaping of Culture in Media and Society. Oxon: Routledge.

Balsamo, A. (1999). Technologies of the gendered body: reading cyborg women.

Durham, N.C., Duke University Press.

Banet-Weiser, S. and Glatt, Z. (2023). ‘"Stop Treating BLM like Coachella": The

Branding of Intersectionality' in Nash, J and Pinto, S. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Intersectionalities. New York, USA. PDF

Barassi, V. (2015). Activism on the Web: Everyday Struggles Against Digital Capitalism.

New York: Routledge

Barassi, V. (2013). Ethnographic Cartographies: Social Movements, Alternative Media

and the Spaces of Networks. Social Movement Studies, 12(1), 48–62.        

https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2012.650951

Barnard, S. R. (2018). Citizens at the Gates: Twitter, Networked Publics, and the

Transformation of American Journalism. Palgrave Macmillan.

Barratt, Monica J., and Alexia Maddox. 2016. “Active Engagement with Stigmatised

Communities through Digital Ethnography.” Qualitative Research, May, 701–19. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794116648766.

Baym, N. (2000). Tune In, Log on: Soaps, Fandom, and Online Community. London,

UK: Sage.

 

Baym, N. (2007). ‘The new shape of online community: The example of Swedish

independent music fandom’. First Monday. 12, 8. Available at: http://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1978/1853 

Baym, N. (2010). Personal Connections in the Digital Age. Cambridge: Polity.

Baym, N. (2018) Playing to the Crowd: Musicians, Audiences, and the Intimate Work of

Connection. New York: New York University Press.

Bender, S. (2025) Feeling Machines: Japanese Robotics and the Global Entanglements

of More-Than-Human Care. Stanford University Press.

 

Beneito-Montagut, R., Begueria, A., and Cassián, N. (2017). Doing digital team

ethnography: being there together and digital social data. Qualitative Research 17(6): 664-682.

Berg, Ulla. (2015). Mobile Selves: Race, Migration, and Belonging in Peru and the U.S.

NYU Press.

Bermúdez, Juan. 2022. Virtual Musical.ly(ties): Identities, Performances & Meanings in a Mobile Application. An Ethnomusicological Approach to TikTok’s Musicking. PhD diss., University of Vienna.

Bermúdez, J. (ed.). (2025). TikTok-Music-Cultures. Perspectives on the Study of Musicking Practices On & Through TikTok, Special Issue, Musicologica Austriaca - Journal for Austrian Music Studies. https://doi.org/10.71045/musau.2025.SI   

Bermúdez, J. (ed.). (2025). Networked Creativity: Musicking in the Social Media Era / Creatividad Interconectada: Musicar en la era de las redes sociales, Special Issue, Journal of Sound, Silence, Image and Technology 9. https://raco.cat/index.php/JoSSIT/issue/view/32488/1216 

Bermúdez, J. (2025). Musicking TikTok: A Musical Ethnography from a Glocal Austrian Context (=New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media), New York: Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798765112212  

Bernal, V. (2014). Nation as Network: Diaspora, Cyberspace, and Citizenship. Chicago

UP.

Bernal, V. (2020). “The Aesthetics of Cyber Insecurity: Displaying the Digital in Three

Museum Exhibits.”  In Ghertner, McFann and Goldstein (eds.), Future Proof. Security Aesthetics and the Management of Life. Duke University Press. Chapter 1.

Bernal, V. (2020). “African Digital Diasporas: Technologies, Tactics, and Trends.

Introduction” African Diaspora 12 (1-2).                                          

Beuving, Joost. 2020. Ethnography’s Future in the Age of Big Data. Information,

Communication, and Society, 23:11, 1625-1639.

Beuving, Joost. 2019. Contacts in a box: Cell phones, social relations, and field

research in Africa, African Studies, 78:3, 370-384.

Bluteau, Joshua M. (2022) Dressing Up: Menswear in the age of Social Media.

NewYork: Berghahn.

Bluteau, Joshua M. (2019): Legitimising digital anthropology through immersive

cohabitation: Becoming an observing participant in a blended digital landscape. In Ethnography 138 (1), 146613811988116. DOI: 10.1177/1466138119881165

Boellstorff, T. (2008). Coming of age in second life: an anthropologist explores the

virtually human. Princeton, USA: Princeton University Press.

Boellstorff, T., Nardi, B., Pearce, C. and Taylor, T.L., 2012. Ethnography and virtual

worlds: A handbook of method. Princeton University Press.

Boffone, T. (2021). Renegades: Digital Dance Cultures from Dubsmash to TikTok. New

York: Oxford University Press.

 

Bonilla, Y. and Rosa, J. (2015). #Ferguson: Digital protest, hashtag ethnography, and

the racial politics of social media in the United States. American Ethnologist Vol. 42 No. 1, pp. 4-17.

boyd, d. (2009). ‘How can qualitative Internet researchers define the boundaries of their

projects?’ in Markham and Baym (eds.) Internet inquiry: conversations about method. London, UK: Sage. pp. 26-32.

boyd, d. (2014). It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens. London: Yale

University Press.

 

boyd, d. (2016). ‘Making Sense of Teen Life: Strategies for Capturing Ethnographic Data

in a Networked Era’ in Hargittai and Sandvig (eds.) Digital research confidential: the secrets of studying behavior online. Massachusetts, USA: MIT Press. pp. 79-103.

 

Boyer, D. (2013). The Life Informatic: Newsmaking in the Digital Era. Ithaca, NY: Cornell

University Press.

Bräuchler, B. (2003). Cyberidentities at war. INDONESIA 75, April, Cornell University:

123-151. https://hdl.handle.net/1813/54286

Bräuchler, B. (2004). Islamic Radicalism Online. The Australian Journal of Anthropology

15 (3): 267-285. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1835-9310.2004.tb00098.x

Bräuchler, B. (2007). Religious Conflicts in Cyberage. Citizenship Studies 11 (4)

September 2007: 329-347. https://doi.org/10.1080/13621020701476012

Bräuchler, B. (2013). Cyberidentities at War: The Moluccan Conflict on the Internet. New

York: Berghahn Books.

Burgess, Jean & Green, Joshua (2018) YouTube: Online Video and Participatory

Culture. John Wiley & Sons

Bräuchler, B. (2020). Bali Tolak Reklamasi – The local adoption of global protest.

Convergence 26 (3): 620-638. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856518806695

Bräuchler, B. and Postill, J. (2010) Theorising Media and Practice. New York/Oxford:

Berghahn Books.

Budka, P. and Bräuchler, B. (2020) Theorising Media and Conflict. New York/Oxford:

Berghahn Books.

Burrell, J. (2009). ‘The field site as a network: A strategy for locating ethnographic

research’. Field Methods. 21,2, pp. 181–199.

Burrell, J. (2012). Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafes of Urban Ghana. MIT

Press.

Campbell, B. and N. Haynes (2020). Constructing the Digital Self in the Global South.

Journal of Language and Sexuality 9(1): 1-13.

Chan, A. (2013). Networking peripheries: Technological futures and the myth of digital

universalism. MIT Press.

Chayko, Mary (2008) Portable Communities: The Social Dynamics of Online and Mobile

Connectedness. SUNY Press

Chee, Florence (2015). “Online Games and Digital Ethnography.” In Mansell, R. and

Ang, P. (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Digital Communication & Society. Wiley-Blackwell. DOI: 10.1002/9781118290743.wbiedcs086

Chee, Florence. (2014). “Cultural Affordances and Changing Social Dynamics in Asian

and European Contexts.” In Bammé, A., Getzinger, G., and Berger, T.(Eds.) Yearbook of the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society (IAS-STS), Graz, Austria, Profil, pp.217-238.

Chee, Florence, and Smith, Richard. (2007). “Online gamers and the ambiguity of

community: Korean definitions of togetherness for a new generation.” In M. Consalvo and C. Haythornthwaite (Eds.), AOIR Internet Annual. Volume 4, New York: Peter Lang Publishers, pp. 165-184.

Chee, Florence. (2006). “The games we play online and offline: making Wang-tta in

Korea.” Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc. Vol. 4(3), pp. 225-239.

Chee, F., and Smith, R. (2005). “Is electronic community an addictive substance? An

ethnographic offering from the EverQuest community.” In S. Schaffer & M. Price (Eds.), Interactive Convergence in Multimedia – Probing the boundaries. Volume 10, The Inter-Disciplinary Press, pp. 137-156.

Cherny, Lynn and Elizabeth Reba Weise (eds). (1996) Wired_Women: Gender and new

realities in cyberspace, Seal Press

Christin, A. (2018). "Counting clicks: Quantification and variation in web journalism in

the United States and France." American Journal of Sociology 123, no. 5: 1382-1415.

Clark, Lynn Schofield & Regina Marchi. (2017). Young People and the Future of News.

Cambridge University Press.

 

Clark, Lynn Schofield. (2004). Ethnographic Interviews on the Digital Divide. New Media

& Society 6(4): 529-547.

Clark, Lynn Schofield. (2013). The Parent App: Understanding Families in a Digital Age.

Oxford University Press.  

Clark, Lynn Schofield. (2016). Participants on the Margins: #BlackLivesMatter and the

role that shared artifacts of engagement played among minoritized political newcomers on Snapchat, Facebook, and Twitter. International Journal of Communication 10(1): 235-253.

Coleman, G. (2010) Ethnographic Approaches to Digital Media. Annual Review of

Anthropology, 39:1, 487-505

Coleman, G. (2013). Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking. Princeton,

NJ: Princeton University Press.

Coleman, G. (2014). Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of

Anonymous. New York: Verso Books.

Consalvo, M., & Paasonen, S. (2002). Women & everyday uses of the Internet: agency

& identity. New York, Peter Lang.

Costa, E. (2016). Social Media in SouthEast Turkey. London: UCL Press.

Cousineau, L. S., Oakes, H., & Johnson, C. W. (2019). Appnography: Modifying

ethnography for app-based culture. In D.C. Parry, C.W. Johnson, & S. Fullagar (Eds.) Digital Dilemmas: Transforming gender identities and power relations in everyday life, (pp. 95-117). B  asingstoke: Palgrave Press.

Curlew, Abigail E. 2019. ‘Undisciplined Performativity: A Sociological Approach to

Anonymity’. Social Media + Society 5(1): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305119829843

Dalsgaard, S. (2016). The ethnographic use of Facebook in everyday life.

Anthropological Forum 26(1): 96-114.

de Seta, G. (2020). Three lies of digital ethnography. Journal of Digital Social Research,

2(1), 77-97.

De Souza e Silva, A. (2006). From cyber to hybrid: Mobile technologies as interfaces of

hybrid spaces. Space and culture, 9(3), 261-278.

Dibbell, Julian. My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World. Owl Books, 1999

Dourish, P. (2001). Where the action is: The foundations of embodied interaction.

Cambridge, Mass, MIT Press.

Domínguez, D., Beaulieu, A., Estalella, A., Gómez, E., Schnettler, B., & Read, R.

(2007). Virtual ethnography. In Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung/Forum: Qualitative Social Research (Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 3-07).

Drenten, J., Gurrieri, L., and Tyler, M. (2020). Sexualized labor in digital culture:

Instagram influencers, porn chic and the monetization of attention. Gender, Work and Organization. 27: 41-66. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12354

Duffett, M. (2013). The Fan Community: Online and Offline. In Duffett, M.,

Understanding Fandom. New York and London: Bloomsbury.

Duggan, M. (2017). Questioning ‘Digital Ethnography’ in an Era of Ubiquitous

Computing. Geography Compass, 11(5): 1-12.

Edwards, E. and Esposito, J. (2019). Intersectional analysis as a method to analyze

popular culture: Clarity in the matrix. New York: Routledge.

Engelbrecht, C.H. (2022).  Agency and labour in Virtual worlds: The Anthropology of

Doing culture. Master's dissertation, University of the Witwatersrand

Falcone, Jessica. (2015). “Our Virtual Materials: The Substance of Buddhist Holy

Objects in a Virtual World.” In Buddhism, the Internet and Digital Media: The Pixel in the Lotus, edited by Daniel Veidlinger and Gregory Grieve, 173-190. New York: Routledge.

Falcone, Jessica. (2017). “A Transnational Tulku: the Multiple Lives of FPMT’s

Spanish-born Lama Ӧsel.” Revue d'Etudes Tibetaines No 38, February: 220-240.

Falcone, Jessica. (2019). “Sacred Realms in Virtual Worlds: The Making of Buddhist

Spaces in Second Life.” Critical Research on Religion. Vol 7 No 2: 147-167.

Fischer, M. M. (2003). Emergent forms of life and the anthropological voice. Durham,

USA: Duke University Press.

Ford, H. (2014). Big Data and Small: Collaborations between ethnographers and data

scientists. Big Data and Society 1 (2).

Forsey, M., Breidenstein, G., Krüger, O. and Roch, A. (2015). Ethnography at a

distance: globally mobile parents choosing international schools. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 28(9): 1112 -1128.

 

Forsey, M. (2018). Educational ethnography in and for a mobile modernity. In Beach, D.,

Bagley, C., and Marques da Silva, S. (eds.) The Wiley Handbook of Ethnography of Education. Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell. 443-454.

Forsythe, Diana. (2001). Studying Those Who Study Us: An Anthropologist in the World

of Artificial Intelligence. Edited by David J. Hess. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Fotopoulou, Aristea. (2016). Feminist activism and digital network: between

empowerment and vulnerabiliy. Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Friedman, Elisabeth. (2017). Interpreting the Internet: Feminist and Queer

Counterpublics in Latin America. Univ of California Press

Gagné, M. (2015) “Nadir’s Intimate Biography: Fantasy, Gay Hook-Up Apps, and

Intimate Productions in Beirut.” Middle East Journal of Culture and Communications, 9(2): 165-181.

Gagné, M. (2012) “Queer Beirut Online: The Participation of Men in GayRomeo.com.”

Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Special edition: Queering Middle East Cyberspace, 8(3): 113-137.

Gajjala, R. (2004). Cyber Selves: Feminist Ethnographies of South Asian Women

United States: AltaMira Press.

Gajjala R (ed.) (2019) Digital Diasporas. Labor and Affect in Gendered Indian Digital

Publics. London: Rowman & Littlefield.

Gault, Erika, Travis Harris. If My Faith Had a YouTube: digitizing Christianity and Hip

Hop: an interview with Beleaf Melanin. Beyond Christian Hip Hop : A Move toward Christians and Hip Hop. Routledge Studies in Hip Hop and Religion. 2020.

Gault, Erika. (2016) "“When Saints Found Out…”: Tasha Cobbs, Nicki Minaj, and the

Policing of Black Christianity Online." Fire!!! 5, no. 1: 9-34.

 

Gault, Erika. (ed) (2020). Special Issue: Africana Digital Humanities, Fire!!!, “My People

Are Free: Theorizing the Digital Black Church.”

Gault, Erika. (Jan. 2022). Networking the Black Church: Digital Black Christians and Hip

Hop. NY: NYU Press.

Ge, L. (2022). Dual ambivalence: The Untamed Girls as a counterpublic. Media, Culture & Society, 44(5), 1021-1033. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437221104713

Gehl, Robert W. 2018. Weaving the Dark Web: Legitimacy on Freenet, Tor, and I2P.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Gegenhuber, T., Ellmer, M., & Schüßler, E. (2021). Microphones, not megaphones : Functional crowdworker voice regimes on digital work platforms. Human Relations, 74(9), 1473–1503. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726720915761

Geiger, R. S., & Ribes, D. (2011). Trace ethnography: Following coordination through

documentary practices. Proceedings of the 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2011), Los Alamitos, CA, 1–10.

Georgakopoulou, Alexandra. 2016. From narrating the self to posting self(ies): A small

stories approach to selfies. Open Linguistics. 2 (1): 300–317.

Georgalou, M. (2017). Discourse and identity on Facebook. London: Bloomsbury.

Gershon, Ilana. 2017. Language and the Newness of Media. Annual Review of

Anthropology 46: 15-31.

Ghosh, Rishab Aiyer (2005). Code: Collaborative Ownership and the Digital Economy.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Glatt, Z. (2023). The intimacy triple bind: Structural inequalities and relational labour in

the influencer industry. European Journal of Cultural Studies, Special Issue on Freelance Feminism. Link

Glatt, Z. (2022). ‘Precarity, discrimination and (in)visibility: An ethnography of “The

Algorithm” in the influencer industry' in Costa, E., Lange, P., Haynes, N. and Sinanan, J. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology. New York, USA: Routledge. pp. 546-559. PDF

Glatt, Z. (2022). “We’re all told not to put our eggs in one basket”: Uncertainty, precarity

and cross-platform labor in the online video influencer industry. International Journal of Communication, 16(2022), 3853–3871. 

Glatt, Z. (2023). The Platformised Creative Worker: An ethnographic study of precarity

and inequality in the London influencer industry (2017-2022) [Doctoral dissertation, London School of Economics and Political Science]. LSE Theses Online. https://etheses.lse.ac.uk/4577/1/Glatt_the-platformised-creative-worker.pdf 

Gómez Cruz, E., & Ardèvol, E. (2017). Ethnography and the field in media (ted) studies:

A practice theory approach. Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, 9(3).

Gray, M. 2009. Out in the country, youth, media and queer visibility in rural America.

New York University Press.

Gray, K. (2014) Race, gender, and deviance in Xbox live: Theoretical perspectives from

the virtual margins, Routledge

Gregory, K. (2007). Drawing a Virtual Gun. Open Fire: Understanding Global Gun

Cultures. Charles Springwood (Ed). Oxford, UK: Berg Publishers.  

Gregory, K, (2019). Contestable Kinship: user experience and engagement on DTC

genetic testing sites. New Genetics and Society, 38 (4): 387-409.

Gregory, K. and Wood, E. (2009). Controlled Demolitions: The 9/11 Truth Movement on

the Internet, Internet Fictions, Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Anton Kirchhofer and Sirpa Leppänen (eds), Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press.

Gross, Nora. (2024). Brothers in Grief: The Hidden Toll of Gun Violence on Black Boys and Their Schools. University of Chicago Press.

Gross, Nora. (2023). “#LongLiveDaGuys: Online Grief, Solidarity, and Emotional Freedom for Black Teenage Boys after the Gun Deaths of Friends.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 52(2): 261-289.

Grossman, Wendy M. (1997) net.wars. New York, NYU Press.

Gurak, L. J. (1999). Persuasion and Privacy in Cyberspace: The Online Protests over

Lotus Marketplace and the Clipper. New Haven, Yale University Press.

Gurrieri, L. and Drenten, J. (2019) The Hashtaggable Body: Negotiating gender

performance in social media. In Susan Dobscha (ed.) Handbook of Research on Gender and Marketing. 101-116. Edward Elgar. https://books.google.com/books/about/Handbook_of_Research_on_Gender_and_Marke.html?id=exOKDwAAQBAJ

Hall, N.-A. (2021). Understanding Brexit on Facebook: Developing close up, qualitative

methodologies for social media research. Sociological Research Online, online first: https://doi.org/10.1177/13607804211037356

Hanson, Kenneth R. (2022). The Silicone Self: Examining Sexual Selfhood and Stigma

within the Love and Sex Doll Community. Symbolic Interaction, 45(2):189–210. https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.575

Hanson, Kenneth R. (2022). What Does the Personification of Love and Sex Dolls

Explain about Doll Owners? Deviant Behavior. Online first. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2022.2105669 

Hargittai, Eszter, ed. 2020. Research Exposed: How Empirical Social Science Gets

Done in the Digital Age. Columbia University Press.

Hargittai, E. and Sandvig, C. (eds.) (2016). Digital research confidential: the secrets of

studying behavior online. Massachusetts, USA: MIT Press.

Harrington, C. L., & Bielby, D. D. (1995). Soap fans: pursuing pleasure and making

meaning in everyday life. Philadelphia, Temple University Press.

Haynes, N. (2016) Social Media in Northern Chile. London: UCL Press.

Haynes, N. (2020). Writing on the Walls: Discourses on Bolivian Immigrants in Chilean

Meme Humor. International Journal of Communication 13: 3122-3142.

 

Haynes, N. and X. Wang (2019). Making Migrant Identities on Social Media: a tale of

two neoliberal cities on the Pacific Rim. Media, Culture & Society 42(1): 126-135.

Haythornthwaite, C. and Wellman, B. (2002). ‘The Internet in Everyday Life: An

Introduction.’ in The Internet in Everyday Life, Haythorthwaite and Wellman (eds.). London, UK: Blackwell. pp. 3–41.

 

Hine, C. (2000). Virtual ethnography. London, UK: Sage.

 

Hine, C. (ed.) (2005). Virtual methods: Issues in social research on the Internet. Oxford,

UK: Berg.

 

Hine, C. (2015). Ethnography for the Internet: embedded, embodied and everyday.

London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic.

 

Hine, C. (2017). ‘Ethnography and the Internet: Taking Account of Emerging

Technological Landscapes’. Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences. 10,3, pp. 315-329.

 

Hinton, S. and L. Hjorth (2013) Understanding Social Media, London: Sage.

Hjorth, L., Horst, H. A., Galloway, A. and Bell, G. (2017). The Routledge companion to

digital ethnography. London: Routledge.

Horn, Stacy (January 1998). Cyberville: Clicks, Culture, and the Creation of an Online

Town. New York: Warner Books.

Horst, H. and Miller, D. (2006). The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication.

Berg.

Horst, H. and Miller, D. (2012). Digital anthropology. London, UK: Bloomsbury

Academic.

Huc-Hepher, S. (2015). Big Web data, small focus: An ethnosemiotic approach to

culturally themed selective Web archiving. Big Data & Society. URL

Huc-Hepher, S. (2016). The Material Dynamics of a London-French Blog: A Multimodal

Reading of Migrant Habitus. Modern Languages Open. URL

Ilbury, C. (2022). Discourses of Social Media Amongst Youth: An Ethnographic                          Perspective. Discourse, Context, and Media. 48.

Ilbury, C. (2022). U Ok Hun?: The Digital Commodification of White Woman Style.                  Journal of Sociolinguistics. 26(4): 483-504.

Irani, L. (2019). Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India

(Vol. 22). Princeton University Press.

Ito, Mizuko, et al. (2010). Hanging Out, Messing Around, Geeking Out: Kids Living and

Learning with New Media. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Jacobs, K., Cheung, D., Maltezos, V., & Wong, C. (2023). The Pepe the Frog

Image-Meme in Hong Kong: Visual Recurrences and Gender Fluidity on the LIHKG Forum. Journal of Digital Social Research, 4(4), 130-150. https://doi.org/10.33621/jdsr.v4i4.131 

Jenkins, H., Ford S., and Green, J. (2013). Spreadable Media: Creating Value and

Meaning in a Networked Culture. London: New York University Press.

Jin, Dal Yong, Chee, Florence, and Kim, Seah. (2015). “Transformative Mobile Game

Culture: A sociocultural analysis of Korean mobile gaming in the era of smartphones.” International Journal of Cultural Studies. Sage Publications. Vol. 18(4), pp. 413-429.

Jin, Dal Yong, and Chee, Florence. (2008). “Age of New Media Empires: a critical

interpretation of the Korean online game industry.” Games and Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media. Thousand Oaks, Ca: Sage Publications. Vol. 3(1), pp. 38-58.

Jones, H. and Arnould, E.J. (2025) Mythologized Counter-Futures and Self-Protective Consumption: A Netnography of Doomsday Preppers, Journal of Consumer Research, 2025; https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucaf005

Jovicic, S. 2020. Scrolling and the In-Between Spaces of Boredom: Marginalized Youths

on the Periphery of Vienna. Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology , 48(4), 498-516. https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.12294

Jovicic, S. (2024). “I can see it in your eyes–you will become a gardener”–An

ethnographic approach to the limits of empowerment through digital literacy among marginalised youth in Vienna.

Kallius, Annastiina, and Rik Adriaans. 2022. ‘The Meme Radar: Locating Liberalism in

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Other Resources

The Digital Ethnography Collective: https://zoeglatt.com/?page_id=545 

Mailing list: tinyurl.com/y5a6odte

Livestreams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr4MutDHj1w&list=PLKj6DiBP6Z-cZG-hB6ynL1i-tKAH9aI_I

The Digital Ethnographers Directory (please add your details!): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x8UOb1AxZS5FYRkXn2QLPrje-6vA4U4WC6SsmJXNHys/edit?usp=sharing 

VIDEO WORKSHOP: Using Nvivo for (digital) ethnographic data analysis.

Zoe Glatt, LSE Digital Ethnography Collective. London School of Economics, October 2019.

CaMP Anthropology blog: https://campanthropology.org/

Digital Ethnography Research Centre (RMIT): https://digital-ethnography.com/ 

Twitter: @DigitalEthno

Rutgers Digital Ethnography Working Group: https://rutgersdigitalethnography.org/ 

Twitter: @RutgersDEWG

The CAQDAS network: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/computer-assisted-qualitative-data-analysis (for help selecting software for analysis)

Digital Methods Initiative Tools Database: ToolDatabase < Dmi < Foswiki

Ethnography Matters blog: http://ethnographymatters.net/

EASA Media Anthropology Network e-seminar series: http://www.media-anthropology.net/index.php/e-seminars

Platypus, the CASTAC Blog
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http://blog.castac.org

Stanford Ethnography Lab, https://ethnographylab.stanford.edu 

http://www.fordigitaldignity.com/  (Taking contemporary landscapes of digital politics in India and the Indian diaspora in Europe as primary focus - The project hosted at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, in cooperation with the Department of Communication and Media Research at LMU Munich.)

Tom Boellstroff’s super useful digital anthropology annotated bibliography (2013): https://escholarship.org/content/qt94j4h0p4/qt94j4h0p4.pdf

Journal of Digital Social Research: Themed issue: a special issue on doing digital ethnography: https://jdsr.io

Social Network Analysis of the Media Ecology - https://snacda.com/papers/

DEI - Digital Ethnography Initiative - University of Vienna:
Blog and resources
https://digitalethnography.at/

But hey, that’s just a theory! A GAME THEORY