New Challenges For the Study of Urban Ethnic Communities: Digitalization and Collaboration
New Challenges For the Study of Urban Ethnic Communities: Digitalization and Collaboration
A digitalizáció és a kollaboráció
The paper tries to rearticulate a classic theme in social research, the study of ethnic communities in metropolitan cities, in the light of social, political, medial and cultural developments of the last decades. Two major problem areas are dealt in detail: How can we prepare for the challenges brought about by digitalization and participatory culture while studying a particular metropolitan ethnic group. We discuss how the everyday life of this group (and other groups) relates to certain points in urban history, focusing on the questions of media use at two different, but related sites: public spaces used by these groups, and online platforms that were created by these groups; both of them being equally important to our research. The paper lays out a potential experimental framework using the basic principles and methodology of digital anthropology and cultural mapping.