I’m pleased to be joining Utrecht University’s cross-faculty Sector Plan on Welfare, Participation, and Citizenship in a Digital World. This is an institutional implementation of the national Sector Plan on Digital Society. As part of my involvement, I’m going to be giving a talk on Jan 30th, 2025, which will be given at a hybrid event, accessible nationwide. Here’s the info about the talk:
We would like to invite you to the first seminar on ‘Digital Ethnography for Engaged and Ethical Research’ by dr. Donya Alinejad. Digital ethnography is a research approach that helps us understand how people use and make sense of digital technologies. Ethnographic methods involve the researcher being curious about, and deeply immersing themselves into, the ordinary settings in which research participants live their everyday lives. Using ethnography to study digital technologies can involve anything from interviewing a respondent in an online game world, to observing how a respondent uses their smartphone while at home.
The ethnographic mode of investigation can reveal subtle insights that are inaccessible through many other methods and research techniques (such as surveys, experiments, content analysis, and data mining). This session aims to spark and guide a conversation about how digital ethnographic approaches can serve publicly engaged and ethical research in/about digital societies.
Donya Alinejad 