Dear All, Due to the uncertainties surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, the Vienna Anthropology Days 2020 will be organized online (Sept. 28- Oct. 1, 2020 https://vanda.univie.ac.at/). We warmly invite you to submit a proposal to our session "Digital Ethnography: Revisiting Theoretical Concepts and Methodological Approaches." The conference organizers have extended the deadline to July 1. For the details of our session, please see below. To submit a proposal, navigate to: https://vanda.univie.ac.at/call-for-papers/ Please let us know if you have any questions. Best wishes, Monika and Philipp Conference Vienna Anthropology Days (VANDA) 2020 Date & Venue 28 September - 1 October, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria Panel Digital Ethnography: Revisiting Theoretical Concepts and Methodological Approaches Organizers Philipp Budka (University of Vienna) Monika Palmberger (University of Vienna) Abstract Ethnographic research has the potential to dig deep into mediated personal relationships as well as into socio-technical relations in an increasingly digitized and digitalized world (e.g., Hjorth et al. 2017; Horst & Miller, 2012; Pink et al., 2016). In order to do so, ethnographers and anthropologists have engaged with a variety of digital and multimodal methods such as online ethnographic fieldwork and participant observation, digital storytelling, mobile and visual media elicitation, digital media biographies, and digital video re-enactments (e.g., Pink et al., 2016). Their research has opened up new knowledge horizons such as the changing emotional, normative or symbolic dimensions of complex social relations and cultural practices entangled with new digital media technologies. This session provides room for critical and ethical reflections on theory and methodology in the field of digital anthropology/ethnography, including, but not limited to, the following questions: Which theoretical concepts are particularly fruitful in the ethnographic and anthropological exploration of digital phenomena? How are such concepts entangled with methodological approaches and challenges, for example by reconsidering issues of collaboration, decolonization, confidentiality or intimacy? How can we do participant observation when communication and interaction are increasingly 'individualized' and veiled due to digital technologies, particularly the smartphone? Which forms of collecting, interpreting and representing empirical data do we aspire for? This session invites presenters to revisit previous discussions and critically reflect upon current relevant debates in anthropology and beyond. Papers may be empirically, methodologically or theoretically driven. Deadline & Submission Please submit your paper abstracts (max. 350 words) online via the conference system the latest by July 1, 2020: https://vanda.univie.ac.at/call-for-papers/ ----------- Dr. Monika Palmberger https://ksa.univie.ac.at/palmberger-monika https://kuleuven.academia.edu/MonikaPalmberger recent publications: Relational ambivalence: Exploring the social and discursive dimensions of ambivalence—The case of Turkish aging labor migrants. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 2019. 2019: Why alternative memory and place-making practices in divided cities matter Space and Polity, 2019.