Digitalization, Objectivity, Field: Reflections on Ethnography – Ayşenur Özel
Digital ethnography allows us to explore different ways of being in the field of the social sciences. But how is digital ethnography received among those practicing traditional ethnographic methods, and to what extent is it accepted in the scientific community? Moreover, do all these questions matter for ethnography, or do we need to have a broader perspective on the reliability and validity of new field methods? This week's class discussion about objectivity and subjectivity in …
From Kula Rings to Gen-Z Reality TV: New Terrain or Same Old Over Again
A graduate seminar is a unique, collective journey. It is more than just reading books, critiquing perspectives, analyzing articles, or writing research papers. In a graduate seminar, the class culture becomes greater than the sum of its parts. We learn from one another, creating an intellectual discourse that is irreplicable. The experience feels almost magical. I was especially excited to hold a graduate seminar in one of my favorite areas, Digital Ethnography. At the same …