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Digital ethnography : anthropology, narrative, and new media

Title
Digital ethnography : anthropology, narrative, and new media / by Natalie M. Underberg and Elayne Zorn.
Author
Underberg, Natalie M.
Publication
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2013.

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Additional Authors
Zorn, Elayne.
Description
x, 117 p. : ill.; 23 cm
Summary
"Digital ethnography can be understood as a method for representing real-life cultures through storytelling in digital media. Enabling audiences to go beyond absorbing facts, computer-based storytelling allows for immersion in the experience of another culture. A guide for anyone in the social sciences who seeks to enrich ethnographic techniques, Digital Ethnography offers a groundbreaking approach that utilizes interactive components to simulate cultural narratives. Integrating insights from cultural anthropology, folklore, digital humanities, and digital heritage studies, this work brims with case studies that provide in-depth discussions of applied projects. Web links to multimedia examples are included as well, including projects, design documents, and other relevant materials related to the planning and execution of digital ethnography projects. In addition, new media tools such as database development and XML coding are explored and explained, bridging the literature on cyber-ethnography with inspiring examples such as blending cultural heritage with computer games. One of the few books in its field to address the digital divide among researchers, Digital Ethnography guides readers through the extraordinary potential for enrichment offered by technological resources, far from restricting research to quantitative methods usually associated with technology. The authors powerfully remind us that the study of culture is as much about affective traits of feeling and sensing as it is about cognition--an approach facilitated (not hindered) by the digital age."--Publisher's website.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [99]-109) and index.
Contents
Rethinking culture through multimedia ethnography -- Florida and Peru : experiments in ethnographic representation -- Digital tools for anthropological analysis -- Using the Extensible Markup Language in cultural analysis and presentation / Natalie Underberg and Rudy McDaniel -- Using features of digital environments to enable cultural learning -- Cultural heritage video game design -- Conclusion. Narratives and critical anthropology : roles for new media.
Call Number
JFD 13-6036
ISBN
  • 9780292744332 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0292744331 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2012029243
  • 40022208860
OCLC
802103176
Author
Underberg, Natalie M.
Title
Digital ethnography : anthropology, narrative, and new media / by Natalie M. Underberg and Elayne Zorn.
Imprint
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2013.
Edition
1st ed.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [99]-109) and index.
Added Author
Zorn, Elayne.
Other Standard Identifier
40022208860
Sudoc No.
Z UA380.8 Un21di txdocs
Research Call Number
JFD 13-6036
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