%0 Journal Article %J Annual Review of Anthropology %D 2010 %T Ethnographic Approaches to Digital Media %A Coleman, E. G. %K cell phone %K Communication %K computers %K Ethnography %X his review surveys and divides the ethnographic corpus on digital me dia into three broad but overlapping categories: the cultural politics of digital media, the vernacular cultures of digital media, and the pro saics of digital media. Engaging these three categories of scholarship on digital media, I consider how ethnographers are exploring the com plex relationships between the local practices and global implications of digital media, their materiality and politics, and their banal, as well as profound, presence in cultural life and modes of communication. I consider the way these media have become central to the articulation of cherished beliefs, ritual practices, and modes of being in the world; the fact that digital media culturally matters is undeniable but showing how, where, and why it matters is necessary to push against peculiarly arrow presumptions about the universality of digital experience. %B Annual Review of Anthropology %V 39 %P 87-505 %G eng %R 10.1146/annurev.anthro.012809.10494