Virtual special issue on digital methods

The Department of Anthropology at The University of Copenhagen has published a virtual special issue entitled Digital methods in/and anthropology 2020. The issue collects expertise on online socialites, digital methods in ethnography, studying programmers and algorithm makers and social data science. The issue holds several contributions by DISTRACT staff - Morten Axel Pedersen, Professor and PI, Anders Blok, Associate Professor and Co-PI, Kristoffer Albris, Assistant Professor - DISTRACT affiliated - Thyge Ryom Enggaard, PhD fellow, Tobias Priesholm Gårdhus, Student Assistant - SODAS staff - Samantha Breslin, Assistant Professor, Snorre Ralund, Research Assistant - and Nete Schwennesen, PostDoctoral Researcher affiliated with SODAS.

Their publications may be found here:

Online socialities

• Albris, K. (2018). "The switchboard mechanism: How social media connected citizens during the 2013 floods in Dresden". In: Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management 26(3): 350-357.
• Albris, K. (2018). "Disaster Governance and the Rise of Social Media: Ethnographic Perspectives from Germany". In: Forino, G., Bonati, S. & L. M. Calandra (eds.), Governance of Risk, Hazards and Disasters: Trends in Theory and Practice. Routledge: Oxon.

Using digital methods in ethnography

• Albris, K. & A. Wahlberg (2018). "At være online: Webnografi og digitale metoder". In: Bundgaard, H., Mogensen, H. & C. Rubow (eds.), Antropologiske projekter: En grundbog. Copenhagen: Samfundslitteratur.
• Breslin, S., Shareck, M. & D. Fuller (2019). Research ethics for mobile sensing device use by vulnerable populations. In: Social Science and Medicine 232: 50-57. 

Studying programmers and algorithm makers

• Breslin, S. (2013). “01010000 01001100 01000001 01011001: Play Elements in Computer Programming”. In: American Journal of Play 5 (3): 357–382.
• Schwennesen, N. (2019). "Algorithmic assemblages of care: Imaginaries, epistemologies and repair work". In: Sociology of health & illness 41: 176-192.
• Schwennesen, N. (2019). "Surveillance Entanglements: Digital Data Flows and Ageing Bodies in Motion in the Danish Welfare State". In: Anthropology & Aging 40(2): 10-22.

Anthropology and social data science

• Blok, A. & M. A. Pedersen (2014). "Complementary Social Science? Quali-Quantitative Experiments in a Big Data World". In: Big Data & Society 1(2): 1-6.
• Blok, A, Carlsen, H. A. B., Jørgensen, T. B., Madsen, M. M., Ralund, S. & M. A. Pedersen (2017). "Stitching together the heterogenous party: A complementary social data science experiment". In: Big Data & Society 4(2).
• Madsen, M. M., Blok, A. & M. A. Pedersen (2018). "Transversal Collaboration: An Ethnography of Computational Social Science". In: Knox, H. & D. Nafus (eds.) Ethnography for a Data-Saturated World. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
• Breslin, S. D., Enggaard, T. R., Blok, A., Gårdhus, T. & M. A. Pedersen (2020). "How We Tweet About Coronavirus, and Why: A Computational Anthropological Mapping of Political Attention on Danish Twitter during the COVID-19 Pandemic". In: Somatosphere.