Very pleased to be one of the speakers in the series coordinated by Prof. Annette Markham on Digital Ethnography. The full line-up includes Nancy Baym, Tania Lewis, Sarah Pink, Payal Arora and many more inspiring scholars, and can be found here. This is the overview of the session I’ll be speaking at alongside Stephanie Livingstone from the Centre for Excellence in Automated Decision Making and Society at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.
Digital Ethnography as participatory and collaborative: Challenges and creative practices for making a difference with/in communities
How can the mindset and tools of ethnography be leveraged to build stronger participatory and collaborative research models in and with communities? This session focuses on the value of making research spaces more accessible or inclusive when working with communities, juxtaposed with the challenges of shifting the academic lens from observation to co-creation and co-learning. Livingstone and Alinejad discuss these topics in the context of their own research practice with homeless youth and diasporic communities, respectively. These cases launch a larger discussion of how the participatory and collaborative features of ethnography enable an adaptive and reflexive mindset, important for communities who have traditionally experienced marginalisation and/or exclusion.
Online via Teams, or In Person at Muntstraat 2A, 0.04 (may be changed depending on audience interest)
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Donya Alinejad 