A call of commons for the common good, authors, gathered as a multi-disciplinary team through an academic journey with Indigenous and urban settings through reciprocal and mutual understanding.
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Are We More Social or Individual by the Digital Ethnographic Tool?: A Reflection With the Rakhain Community of Bangladesh
Jahid Siraz Chowdhury (Lincoln University College, Malaysia),
Haris Abd Wahab (University Malaya, Malaysia), Mohd Rashid M Saad (University Malaya, Malaysia), and Mong A. Line Rakhine (State University, Bangladesh)
Copyright: © 2022
|Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-4190-9.ch006
Abstract
Now, why should anthropology or the larger social sciences, like ours, be particularly interested in this pandemic? Digitally? The problem is, as we have experienced during this epidemic, daily academic texts, newspapers, webinars, home-based work, and so on. If we are based on the digital approach to ethnography, perhaps we can ask what has it brought to us. Are we within ourselves, or in the digital tool? Maybe we can put it simply, Are we more individualistic or more social? Are we in communication, which is totally abstract, or in a connection that is more practical, reciprocal, and contributing? As we know, we are limited in our thinking and actions, yet we can bring this discussion in detail. What the authors have collected from the fieldwork of the Bioprospecting project with the Rakhain community in Bangladesh may be helpful to other sections of the global readership. To an extent, policymakers can think of connectivity, reciprocity, and practical contributions if we are social animals.