eFieldnotes : the makings of anthropology in the digital world / edited by Roger Sanjek and Susan W. Tratner. - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016 - x, 296 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. - Haney Foundation series .

Examines how anthropological fieldwork has been affected by technological shifts in the 25 years since the 1990 publication of Fieldnotes : the making of anthropology, edited by Roger Sanjek, published by Cornell University Press.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From Fieldnotes to eFieldnotes / Roger Sanjek -- Digital technologies, virtual communities, electronic fieldwork : the slow social science adapts to high-tech Japan / William W. Kelly -- Changes in fieldnotes practice over the past thirty years in U.S. anthropology / Jean E. Jackson -- The digital divide revisited : local and global manifestations / Mary H. Moran -- Writing eFieldnotes : some ethical considerations / Mieke Schrooten -- Filesharing and (im)mortality : from genealogical records to Facebook / Martin Slama -- Doing fieldwork, BRB : locating the field on and with emerging media / Jordan Kraemer -- "Through a screen darkly" : on remote, collaborative fieldwork in the digital age / Jenna Burrell -- Being in fieldwork : collaboration, digital media, and ethnographic practice / Heather A. Horst -- New York parenting discussion boards : eFieldnotes for new research frontiers / Susan W. Tratner -- When fieldnotes seem to write themselves : ethnography online / Bonnie A. Nardi -- The ethnography of inscriptive speech / Graham M. Jones and Bambi B. Schieffelin -- Preservation, sharing, and technological challenges of longitudinal research in the digital age / Lisa Cliggett -- Archiving fieldnotes? Placing "anthropological records" among plural digital worlds / Rena Lederman -- Digital engagements : fieldnotes and queries for anthropology prompted by Iraqi Kurdistan in the information age / Diane E. King.

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Ethnology--Fieldwork--Technological innovations.
Anthropology--Fieldwork--Technological innovations.
Ethnologists--Effect of technological innovations on.
Anthropologists--Effect of technological innovations on.
Ethnology--Methodology--Technological innovations.
Anthropology--Methodology--Technological innovations.
Computers and civilization--Research.
Cyperspace--Social aspects--Research.
Anthropological archives.

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