Tokyo behind Screens: Participant Observation in a City of Mobile Digital Communication

This paper critically discusses the method of participant observation (as ethnographic method and everyday practice), which consists of participation, observation and mediation, and suggests adjustments, through the lens of perception, which seem necessary in smartphone-saturated cities. The author...

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Main Author: Florian Purkarthofer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Arnold Bergstraesser Institute 2020-03-01
Series:International Quarterly for Asian Studies
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Online Access:https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iqas/article/view/10706