Digital Ethnography in Qualitative Research

₹499

₹1,500

Instructor: Dr. Soibam HaripriyaLanguage: English

About the course

This workshop offers an introduction to digital ethnography for beginners, exploring how ethnographic methods can be used to understand culture and social life in digital spaces. Participants will learn how traditional ethnographic approaches are adapted to study online communities, platforms, and interactions. The session will also address key ethical considerations in digital research and discuss the broader significance of conducting ethnographic work in virtual environments. As digital spaces increasingly shape our everyday lives, digital ethnography has become a vital tool for understanding contemporary social and cultural dynamics.

Syllabus

Session One 

INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Haripriya Soibam

Saturday, September 13, 2025 (10:00 AM-11:30 AM)

Topic A: INTRODUCE BEGINNERS TO WHAT IS DIGITAL ETHNOGRAPHY 

Topic B: HOW ETHNOGRAPHY CONTRIBUTES TO UNDERSTANDING CULTURE IN THE VIRTUAL WORLD


Session Two

INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Haripriya Soibam 

Saturday, September 13, 2025 (12:00 PM-01:30 PM)

Topic 3: ETHICS OF DIGITAL ETHNOGRAPHY 

 Topic 4: WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF DOING RESEARCH IN DIGITAL SPACE

Learning Objectives

Know about digital ethnography, understand the field of digital ethnography and new questions of ethics that working in the virtual world brings, how to do research in the virtual space

Who Can Benefit From this: 

This is an introductory workshop that will benefit Qualitative research scholars who have not started field work and are thinking of using digital ethnography as a part of their field research will benefit from this workshop

Pre-Requisite

Scholars have already taken courses on ethnographic methods

E-certificate (provided) for 70% attendance across both sessions. 

Meet Our Instructor

Dr. Soibam Haripriya, 

Assistant Professor, Social Sciences and Humanities, IIIT-Delhi

Email: soibam@iiitd.ac.in

Soibam Haripriya completed her Ph.D from the Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics. She was a Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Fellow at the South Asia Institute, University of Texas at Austin (2022-2023). She was also the FWO Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Conflict and Development Studies, Ghent University, Belgium and a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies (IIAS), Shimla. She has taught at the Centre for Sociology and Social Anthropology, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Guwahati Campus and Gender Studies Programme, School of Human Studies Ambedkar University.