1st Edition

Exploring Digital Ethnography From Principles to Practice

Edited By Natalie Underberg-Goode, Marty Otañez Copyright 2025
168 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

168 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

168 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Exploring Digital Ethnography: From Principles to Practice places digital ethnography within the context of the production of multimedia, multisensory “research-creation” pieces using a variety of methods, tools, and techniques. This book provides new insights into how digital tools and concepts can facilitate the deliberation process, while they can also be used to materialize knowledge in... Read more

List of Contributors

 

Introduction to Exploring Digital Ethnography

Natalie Underberg-Goode

 

Chapter 1: Multimedia Ethnography via Comics

Erin Kathleen Bahl

 

Chapter 2: Translating Personal Experience into an Interactive Narrative

Jesslyn Parrish

 

Chapter 3: Design Ethnography and Digital Heritage

Natalie Underberg-Goode

 

Chapter 4: Bidi Rollers in West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh, India: A Photographic Essay

Marty Otañez, Nirmalya Mukherjee, Paramita Bhattacharya, Sajda Khatoon, Biswajit Mahapatra, and Pritha Das

 

Chapter 5: The Anthropology of Organic Theater: Interview with the Romero Theater Troupe’s Jim Walsh

Marty Otañez and James Walsh

 

Chapter 6: Worldbuilding as Pedagogy: Teaching Anthropology and Diversity in Contentious Classrooms

Michael Kilman

 

Chapter 7: Anonymity and Agency: Collaborative Digital Storytelling with Queer, Trans, and Non-Binary Asylum Seekers from Mexico and Central America

Darío Valles

 

Conclusion: Possible Futures for the Field of Digital Ethnography

Marty Otañez

 

Index 

Biography

Natalie Underberg-Goode is Professor and Associate Director of Games and Interactive Media at the University of Central Florida.

Marty Otañez is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado Denver.