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Digital Ethnography of Virtual Communities and Embodied Presence Online

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Early digital ethnographers were criticized for doing 'armchair anthropology' because they conducted fieldwork without physically being 'there'—forcing them to redefine what 'field' and 'presence' mean in the digital age.

Why this is interesting

Imagine studying a culture where you can never see the people face-to-face—their bodies are pixelated avatars. How can an anthropologist understand a community that exists only in a database?