- Lots of Bibliographies, Crowdsourced Resources, and Collectives (* indicates those that respond directly to the pandemic):
- Philipp Budka’s “Digital and Online Ethnography — A Selection of Resources” (March 19, 2020).
- Digital Ethnography Research Centre @RMIT.
- “Doing Digital Ethnography” special issue of the Journal of Digital Social Research 2:1 (2020).
- Ethnography Matters (2011-2017) [on academic and applied ethnography in digital worlds and tech industries].
- * Julia Leser’s Twitter thread (March 2020).
- LSE Digital Ethnography Reading List + more on the Digital Ethnography Collective.
- * Deborah Lupton et. al., “Doing Fieldwork in a Pandemic” (March 2020).
- Devin Proctor, “So You Want to Do Digital Ethnography?” The Geek Anthropologist (March 25, 2020).
- * University of Toronto’s Ethnography Lab, “Ethnography in/of the Pandemic” (2020).
- VoxPol’s Research Resources for internet research / digital ethnography, including material on ethics, researcher well-being, data sets and tools, etc. (2020).
- Heikki Wilenius’s “Resources on Online Ethnography” (2020).
- Some highlights:
- Tom Boellstorff, Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human (Princeton University Press, 2015).
- Tom Boellstorff, Bonnie Nardi, Celia Pearce, and T.L. Taylor, Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method (Princeton University Press, 2012).
- Jenna Burrell, “The Field Site as a Network: A Strategy for Locating Ethnographic Research,” Field Methods 21:2 (2009).
- Gabriella Coleman, “Ethnographic Approaches to Digital Media,” Annual Review of Anthropology (2010): 487-505 (and, really, all of Biella’s work).
- Jeffrey Lane, The Digital Street (Oxford University Press, 2018).
- Annette Markham’s work.
- Richard Rogers, Digital Methods (MIT Press, 2015).
- Nick Seaver, “Algorithms as Culture: Some Tactics for the Ethnography of Algorithmic Systems,” Big Data & Society 4:2 (2017).
- Malte Ziewitz, “A Not Quite Random Walk: Experimenting with the Ethnomethods of the Algorithm,” Big Data & Society (2017).
Image: Tim Mara, Hand Grip, 1979