What does it mean to “be there” in ethnographic research when #fieldwork is increasingly digital, distributed & asynchronous? In this new post, T. Ahlin revisits the concept of digital field events & reflects on presence, temporality & ethnographic engagement: digitalethnography.at/being-there-...

Being There, Being Then, Being Present in Digital Field Events

Tanja Ahlin*When I first introduced the notion of "field events" with my co-author Fangfang Li (Ahlin and Li 2019), digital technologies were becoming more common in ethnographic fieldwork, b

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We’re now on Bluesky! Digital Ethnography Initiative (DEI) — research, methods & conversations on #ethnography in digital worlds. More on: digitalethnography.at