Aula Inaugural do Doutoramento em Antropologia

Heather Horst
Universidade RMIT ‐ Melbourne

Throughout the world digital and networked media have inspired researchers across a range of disciplines to explore the possibilities of ethnography for studying a range of practices including online game communities, locative and social media as well as YouTube and mobile media. This talk will focus upon the development of digital ethnography as an approach to understanding digital media and technologies in our everyday lives. Doing research with, through and in an environment partially constituted by digital media has led to the development of new and innovative methods. It has also inspired researchers to theorise the digital world in new ways, inviting us to revisit previous practices, media and environments, including central concepts in social and cultural research.