All Outputs (2)

Becoming augmented: The latent possibilities of ethnography in a pandemic (2024)
Journal Article
Ryder, C. (2025). Becoming augmented: The latent possibilities of ethnography in a pandemic. Possibility Studies, 3(1), 63-77. https://doi.org/10.1177/27538699241264608

For all its wretched ways, COVID:19 has installed new possibilities to the way we do ethnographic research. Due to pandemic restrictions, my research on how digital activists in Sri Lanka acquire influence on social media fell into three distinct pha... Read More about Becoming augmented: The latent possibilities of ethnography in a pandemic.

The Digital IRL: Influence as Resistance in Post-Pandemic Sri Lanka (2024)
Thesis
Ryder, C. E. The Digital IRL: Influence as Resistance in Post-Pandemic Sri Lanka. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This study is based on 18 months of fieldwork with Sri Lankans who use social media for resistance. On the one hand, the monograph considers the ethnographic tensions that emerge in the encounter between being a highly visible Sri Lankan activist on... Read More about The Digital IRL: Influence as Resistance in Post-Pandemic Sri Lanka.