Doing digital research in the social sciences: strategies and issues
Monday 1 March 2021 13:00 to 14:00Speakers: |
Dr William Kelly, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography |
Location: |
Virtual Event |
The ongoing development and proliferation of digital communication and social networking technologies is providing new platforms and forums for discussion, interaction and association of all kinds online, yielding new opportunities for researchers in the social sciences. This trend has been greatly accelerated by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, during which online interaction became, for many, the only viable option.
Pandemic restrictions have rendered conventional field research, including long-term ethnographic research, virtually impossible, prompting Anthropologists and other social scientists to explore alternative options for pursuing their research remotely, via digital technologies. In this session, Dr Kelly will outline some strategies and issues involved in this impetus towards and migration to digital research methods. This will be followed by a Q&A and discussion session, during which attendees are strongly encouraged to raise issues encountered in their own research for discussion.
About the speaker
Dr William Kelly is an Anthropologist of and Research Affiliate at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography (SAME), University of Oxford. His main research interests are concerned with the production and consumption of popular culture, leisure and entertainment practices (karaoke, video games) in Japan and the movement, adaptation and localization of such practices across national/cultural borders. Other research interests include the Anthropology of memory, nostalgia and heritage; the relationship between technology and society; and research methods in Anthropology, especially digital methods and the emergent field of digital Anthropology. He is co-founder and co-convenor of the Oxford Digital Ethnography Group (OxDEG), creator and convenor of the Digital Methods module for research students in Anthropology and also occasional convenor of the Digital Ethnography option at the Oxford Internet Institute. He currently holds a Teaching Development and Enhancement Project (TDEP) Award for development of digital methods training in the Social Sciences Division.
Organisers
Professor Robert Arnott, Associate Fellow
Keiko Kanno, DPhil, Medical Anthropology
How to register
This event will be online via Zoom. Please register here using your university email address. The Zoom link, ID and password will be shared with those registered ahead of the event.
For further information please contact keiko.kanno@anthro.ox.ac.uk.
Type: Lectures and Seminars
