Being There, Being Then, Being Present in Digital Field Events

When I first introduced the notion of “field events” with my co-author Fangfang Li (Ahlin and Li 2019), digital technologies were becoming more common in ethnographic fieldwork, but they were still not the most popular. Only one year after the initial publication, the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic forced ethnographers around the world to incorporate these devices into their methodology as funding agencies required the suspension of face-to-face fieldwork (Cabalquinto and Ahlin 2023). Since then, the concept of field events has become even more analytically salient.

Read the continuation at Digital Ethnography Initiative Blog by the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna.