Ethnographers study people by observing their lives where and as they unfold. But questions of being there and present are made more interesting and complicated with digital media and rapidly changing times.

The Rutgers Digital Ethnography Working Group (DEWG) develops principles, practices, and ethics of digital ethnography to advance a deeper understanding of how people live today, including born-digital strategies and innovative, multimodal methods of doing fieldwork.

We support active digital ethnographers and researchers within the Rutgers School of Communication and Information and beyond. We do this by supporting and promoting member output and networking, internal resource and capacity building, meetings, and writing groups; and public events.