Methods in platform urbanism: everyday platform urbanism and ethnography

Johan Vaide

Chapter 15 in Handbook of Platform Urbanism, 2025, pp 201-210 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Everyday use of platforms is an unceasing oscillation between platform interfaces and urban space. Given how platforms are used, qualitative approaches addressing platforms and their relationships with urban spaces are needed. Focusing on broader ethnographic concerns, the chapter outlines a qualitative toolbox dealing with the entanglement of digital and physical features of everyday platform use. To do this, the chapter draws on theoretical and methodological considerations regarding digital/physical entanglements, the walkthrough method, and the themes of digital placemaking, locative features and gateways. By this toolbox, the chapter also answers to a call for ethnographic approaches to platform urbanism as platform urbanism scholarship has focused primarily on broader political economy analyses. Examining platforms with ethnographic tools is beneficial as ethnographers begin in people's everyday life to understand space and place.

Keywords: Everyday platform urbanism; Ethnography; Qualitative methodologies; Digital; Physical entanglements (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035313754
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