Digital environments: ethnographic perspectives across global online and offline spaces

Digital technology already has permeated the physical world. Devices such as smartphones, tablets or wearables and online venues like virtual worlds and social networks have penetrated every part of our lives. The contributions to this volume apply innovative forms of ethnographic research to the digital realm. They examine the emergence of new online communities around Greenlandic news blogs or Malaysian LGBT Facebook groups, the rise of transnational migrant networks facilitated by social media, or the representation of conflicts and the proliferation of ideologies within online spaces.

Foreword / Sarah Pink -- Digital environments and the future of ethnography : an introduction / Urte Undine Frömming, Steffen Köhn, Samantha Fox, Mike Terry -- Part 1. Digital communities and the re-creation oof the self and social relationships online. A comment on East Greenland online : media commenting systems as spaces for public debate with a focus on East Greenland in the Greenlandic media / Jóhanna Björk Sveinbjörnsdóttir ; Welcome home : an ethnography on the experiences of Airbnb hosts in commodifying their homes / Brigitte Borm ; How has the Internet determined the identity of Chilean gay men in the last twenty years? / Juan Francisco Riumalló Grüzmacher ; Red packets in the real and virtual worlds : how multi-function WeChat influences Chinese virtual relationships / Xiaojing Ji ; Antifeminism online : MGTOW (Men Going Their Own Way) / Jie Liang Lin ; Exploring the potentials and challenges of virtual distribution of contemporary art / Jonas Blume ; Blind and online : an ethnographic perspective on everyday participation within blind and visually impaired online communities / Olivier Llouquet ; How has social media changed the way we grieve? / Ellen Lapper ; Watch me, I'm live : Periscope and the "new-individualistic" need for attention / Dario Bosio -- Part 2. Political digital environments and activism online. Hair, blood and the nipple : Instagram censorship and the female body / Gretchen Faust ; Berlin. Wie bitte? : an exploration of the construction of online platforms for the mutual support of young Spanish immigrants in Berlin / Teresa Tiburcio Jiménez ; An exploration of the role of Twitter in the discourse around race in South Africa : using the #Feesmustfall movement as a pivot for discussion / Suzanne Beukes ; Migration, political art and digitalization / Sara Wiederkehr Gonzáles ; "You're not left thinking that you're the only gay in the village" : the role of the Facebook group Seksualiti Merdeka in the Malaysian LGBT community / Veera Helena Pitkänen ; Finding a visual voice : the #Euromaidan impact on Ukrainian Instagram users / Karly Domb Sadof ; Google a religion : expanding notions of religion online / Joanna Sleigh.