Contrapuntal connectedness: Analysing relations between social media data and ethnography in digital migration studies
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This chapter presents a rethinking of the relationship between ethnography and so-called big social data as being comparable to those between a sum and its parts (Strathern 1991/2004). Taking cue from Tim Ingold’s one world anthropology (2018) the chapter argues that relations between ethnography and social media data can be established as contrapuntal. That is, the types of material are understood as different, yet fundamentally interconnected. The chapter explores and qualifies this affinity with the aim of identifying potentials and further questions for digital migration research. The chapter is based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out with Syrian refugees and solidarians in the Danish–Swedish borderlands in 2018–2019 as well as data collected for 2011–2018 from 200 public Facebook pages run by solidarity organisations, NGOs, and informal refugee welcome and solidarity groups.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Research methodologies and ethical challenges in digital migration studies: Caring for (big) data |
Editors | Marie Sandberg, Luca Rossi, Vasilis Galis, Martin Bak Jørgensen |
Number of pages | 33 |
Place of Publication | Switzerland |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Publication date | 2021 |
Pages | 53-86 |
Chapter | 3 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783030812256 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9783030812263 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2021 |
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