A leading scholar in digital anthropology and media studies, Przybylski is internationally recognized for their work on digital cultures, visual practices, and the politics of online environments.

During their visit, they will deliver a lecture and take part in a public panel discussion. This event in CREA centres on hybrid ethnography and the double-edged nature of digital activism, bringing together perspectives on social media and online spaces as sites of political mobilization, infrastructural power, and epistemic transformation.

Digital platforms play an increasingly central role in shaping collective action and public discourse. At the same time, they reproduce and intensify inequalities through processes such as datafication, algorithmic mediation, surveillance, and forms of digital colonialism.

Using hybrid ethnography as a shared methodological lens, the panel explores how researchers engage with these dynamics across online and offline contexts.

A key aim of the discussion is to reflect on how digital environments reshape social relations, categories of experience, and forms of knowledge, and what this means for contemporary ethnographic research.

The programme includes a lecture by Dr. Liz Przybylski, followed by a moderated panel discussion and audience Q&A.

Program

12:00 – 13:00: Walk-in lunch
13:00 – 13:45: Lecture Liz Przybylski
13:00 – 14:30: Panel discussion with Liz Przybylski, Ashley Mears & Yatun Sastramidjaja

Panel members

Moderator

Short Intensive Course: Hybrid Ethnography

On Tuesday 14 April, Dr. Liz Przybylski will lead a Short Intensive Course (SIC) on hybrid ethnography. This full-day workshop focuses on the methodological challenges of conducting research across digital and physical environments.

The course is open to AISSR / UvA PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers.

Interested in participating in the Short Intensive Course? Please register below before Friday 27 March.