Miriyam Aouragh hosts Ethnography as a Research Method Workshop Series

The Ethnography as a Research Method Workshop Series is curated for the Graduate School by Miriyam Aouragh (Professor of Digital Anthropology).

Politics, culture, society, information, media and communication are all produced and reproduced within their wider context. But over the past decades this context is inevitably transformed by internet technology. There is growing demand for advanced research and analytical skills about the impact of digital technologies on society. This includes data, algorithms and smartphones, but also the relationship between our online and offline lives.

With a special focus on the changing infrastructural realities of social life, Aouragh will demonstrate how best to explore digital communities, online spaces, internet activist, citizen journalists, visual archives, transnational art collectives or architectural virtual sites. This short course consists of three workshops and offers an engaging training in the fundamentals of social scientific inquiry related to digital ethnography.

This program is divided into three workshops:

• Part 1: 28 February, 2 – 3.30pm: Harrow campus

The Part 1 workshop will explore how ethnography evolved to help understand how this research approach has gone through different theoretical and practical stages and evolved into digital ethnography;

• Part 2: 21 March, 2 – 3.30pm: Harrow campus

The Part 2 workshop will discuss the most interesting real-life examples and empirical case studies that relate to ethnographic models. How does the circulation of online content relate to pre-existing forms of community and belonging? The way people interact with the world around them and the way groups form communities in and through digital infrastructures are discussed through an intersectional lense.

• Part 3: 9 May 2 – 3.30pm: Harrow campus

The Part 3 workshop will discern the main epistemic roots tools of anthropology in order to understand the unique relation between ethnography and ethics, and in due course understand which moral, political and social boundaries ethnography produces, or conversely, puts into question.

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