On Critical Proximity: Distance, Difference, and Digital Sociality

IF 4.6 Q2 MATERIALS SCIENCE, BIOMATERIALS ACS Applied Bio Materials Pub Date : 2022-07-02 DOI:10.2458/jpe.4783
Jennifer Johnson, Alder Keleman Saxena
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This paper considers the extension of digital connectivity into remote areas, especially the kinds of geographically out-of-the-way sites that have long characterized ethnographic fieldwork about the environment, arguing that this phenomenon calls for a critical re-examination of the role that the notions of distance and difference have played in shaping the discipline. The kinds of frequent, distance- and difference-bridging social interactions that digital-social spaces enable, we argue, trouble the ideal-type of far-off field-sites populated by radically different interlocutors. Putting the authors’ field research in Uganda and Bolivia in conversation with our lived experiences as Xennial ethnographers and digital media users, the paper examines three themes: how digital connectivity is changing “the field” and fieldwork; how the ubiquity of digital technologies is changing the relationship between “the field” and “home”; and how ethnographers can position their research in academic settings where digital data is increasingly prevalent and powerful. While the extension of digital sociality across these spaces limits “critical distance,” we suggest that it productively enables “critical proximity” - a situated ethnographic stance which rests not just on engagement with our interlocutors across time and place, but also responsiveness to the kinds of claims-making that digital social interactions uniquely enable.
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论批判性邻近:距离、差异与数字社会
本文考虑了数字连接到偏远地区的扩展,特别是那些地理上偏僻的地点,这些地点长期以来一直是关于环境的民族志田野调查的特征,认为这种现象要求对距离和差异的概念在塑造学科中所起的作用进行批判性的重新审视。我们认为,数字社交空间所带来的频繁、跨越距离和差异的社交互动,给那些由截然不同的对话者组成的理想类型的远方现场带来了麻烦。本文将作者在乌干达和玻利维亚的实地研究与我们作为民族志学家和数字媒体用户的生活经历进行了对话,探讨了三个主题:数字连接如何改变“领域”和实地工作;无处不在的数字技术如何改变“场”与“家”之间的关系;以及民族志学家如何在数字数据日益普及和强大的学术环境中定位他们的研究。虽然数字社交在这些空间中的扩展限制了“关键距离”,但我们认为,它有效地实现了“关键距离”——一种定位于民族志的立场,它不仅依赖于与我们的对话者跨越时间和地点的接触,而且还依赖于对各种主张的回应——这使得数字社交互动能够独特地实现。
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