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Introduction
Simone Pfeifer is a social and cultural anthropologist with a focus on media, migration and religious-political contexts. She is currently working as a postdoc researcher in the Research Training Group "anschließen–ausschließen" at the UoC In her research project she focuses on Muslim everyday life and digital media practices in Germany.
Her work explores social, visual, and digital practices, using experimental ethnography and digital curatorial strategies for the co-creation of knowledge.
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July 2017 - October 2021
April 2007 - September 2013
October 2013 - March 2017
Education
September 2005 - November 2006
October 2001 - July 2005
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Welche Rolle spielen digitale Medien im transnationalen sozialen Alltag? Für Senegales_innen in Berlin und Dakar erfüllen sie eine besondere Funktion: Mobiltelefone, Social Media, digitale Fotografie und Videos ermöglichen es, abwesende Personen - Geschwister, Freunde oder Ehepartner - auf spezifische Weise präsent zu machen. Simone Pfeifers medien...
This article explores portrait images, wedding albums and Facebook images as personal migrant archives. Examining the particular temporalities and the analog–digital materialities of the images, we unfold their significance for the construction of transnational sociality among Senegalese in Berlin and Dakar, from the perspective of women. By addres...
This contribution explores the role of wedding videos in shaping transnational social relationships. Examining the production and aesthetic means of these ‘mobile images of mobility’, I show how videographers serve as ritual and social specialists to bring to the fore a fictionalized, imagined place of transnational social relationships. As evidenc...
Our aim with this issue is to provide a starting point for an intensive conversation about the
flexibility and systematization of the methodology of research and its specific challenges in highly contested fields like far-right and militant Islamist movements. The contributions to this special section discuss issues related to the moral, emotional...
This article explores how the regulations imposed during Germany’s first COVID-19 lockdown in 2020 impacted on gendered mosque spaces and the digital spheres relating to those spaces. Examining the call to prayer as a sensory form that establishes “aesthetic formations” (Meyer 2009), the article unpacks gender-specific Muslim perspectives on space...
https://allegralaboratory.net/multimodal-digital-curating-as-anthropological-research-collaboration-and-engagement/
This paper explores the multifaceted approach of multimodal digital curating, emphasizing its transformative potential in shaping ethnographic encounters and academic knowledge production. Drawing on insights and the talks from the...
In diesem Beitrag untersuche ich Reenactments von IS-Hinrichtungsvideos in deutschsprachigen digitalen Kontexten. Am Beispiel von Videos der aktivistischen Gruppe 12thMemoRise in Düsseldorf und der Identitären Bewegung in Wien verdeutliche ich, wie die mediale Vermittlung des Körpers nicht nur durch Kameraeinstellungen und Schnitt, sondern auf spez...
Finding innovative, engaging, hierarchy-defying and, above all, precise descriptions of teaching exercises suitable for imparting complex theory and methodological approaches as multi-layered as postdigital ethnography is rare to find. Those that exist are mostly scattered across a few non-specific blogs and private Twitter feeds – finding them is...
This introduction to our volume 'Disentangling Jihad, Political Violence and Media' uses three examples to illustrate some of the ways in which the nexus of jihad, political violence, and media infuses quite distinct media aggregates and informs the interpretation of jihad as a concept that guides action under specific social and political conditio...
The entanglement of Jihad, Political Violence, and Media has determined the lives of Muslims in Europe and the US over the past 20 years. This book unravels the nexus of these elements, to critically examine how their conjunction is perpetuated, reproduced, or disputed. In 16 case studies, the contributors critically reflect on the identification o...
In diesem Beitrag stellen wir digitale ethnografische Team-Arbeit vor. Am Beispiel des Profils Hashtag Islam auf Instagram veranschaulichen wir kollaboratives Vorgehen im Team, den Aufbau einer Zusammenarbeit, die Rolle der teilnehmenden Beobachtung und die Interaktion mit und Ausweitung der Kollaboration auch auf Gesprächspartner*innen. Der Beitra...
This contribution explores how wedding images are circulated and appropriated by Senegalese migrants and their families and friends in Senegal. Tracing how absences are ‘cooperatively’ acknowledged and presences constructed by means of montage and collage in wedding albums and videos demonstrates the fundamental significance of images—and sometimes...
Research on flight and refugees has been experiencing a boom in the German-speaking regions since about 2015. This handbook opens up the field in all its breadth and at the same time critically reflects the state of research. Part I of the volume discusses on a theoretical level the historical development of the field, its (trans-)disciplinary appr...
Call for Papers
International Workshop: Populist Aesthetics in Cultural Perspectives:
Truthmaking, Faking, and the Politics of Affect in (Digital) Media
10.-11. March 2022 at CATS (Heidelberg University)
Organised by: Cathrine Bublatzky (HCTS) and Simone Pfeifer (Mainz/Cologne)
Funded by the Thyssen Foundation and co-financed by the Baden Württe...
Blogpost available at: https://digitalethnography.at/2021/04/29/how-can-you-approach-the-field-digitally-reflections-on-using-social-media-profiles-in-ethnographic-research/#more-532
The introduction to this edited volume proposes the concept of audiovisuality as a heuristic to explore the links between actors generating meaning and knowledge through audio-visual media, people’s sensations and the mediations they encounter. We argue that audiovisuality not only denotes “representations” of something but includes mediation, sens...
Since the height of ISIS media production from 2014-2017 their promotional videos have become known for their graphic violence and drastic portrayal of beheadings. These iconic executions have been widely appropriated and re-enacted in different contexts by Muslim artists and activists in Europe and the SWANA region as well as by the right-wing “id...
This volume situates jihadi audio-visual media within a global communicative web, and provides perspectives that relate the production and dissemination of jihadi images and sound to various forms of engagement and appropriation. Through 12 case studies, this book examines the different ways in which Jihadi groups and their supporters use visualisa...
Through 12 case studies, this book examines the different ways in which Jihadi groups and their supporters use visualisation, sound production and aesthetic means to articulate their cause in online as well as offline contexts.
Divided into four thematic sections, the chapters probe Jihadi appropriation of traditional and popular cultural expressio...
Dieser Beitrag widmet sich der multiperspektivischen Analyse des IS-Videos Inside the Khilafah 8. Das dialogische Gruppengespräch verdeutlicht den kollaborativen und iterativen Prozess der Beschreibung und Deutung. Nach einer Einordnung des Videos in die Medienproduktion des IS und in den Kontext der Inside-Reihe werden die drei wichtigsten Themenb...
How does being a parent in the field influence a researcher's positionality and the production of ethnographic knowledge? Based on regionally and thematically diverse cases, this collection explores methodological, theoretical, and ethical dimensions of accompanied fieldwork. The authors show how multiple familial relations and the presence of thei...
The article explores ethical challenges in digital media ethnography in the field of militant political Islam, pointing to the dilemma that arises in doing research on Islam as part of the securitised research funding system. Expanding on discussions in anthropology about the principles of “do no harm” and “be open and honest about your work”, the...
Hg.): Eventforschung. Theoretische und methodische Herausforderungen. Abstract The study of events poses challenges for ethnographers with regard to the conceptualisation of events and research methodology. When does an event begin, and when does it end? Are preparations, follow-up work and ensuing reports and debates part of the event? Whose persp...
Mit dem Fokus auf Medienpraktiken bündelt dieses Heft aktuelle Positionen zur empirischen Erforschung von Medien. Die Beiträge gehen davon aus, dass Medien erst durch ihren Gebrauch zu Medien werden. Medienpraktiken zu erforschen, bedeutet jedoch nicht nur herauszufinden, was Menschen mit Medien tun, sondern auch was Medien mit Menschen machen. Die...
