Christian Ritter

Jag är antropolog och specialiserad på ekologier av mobila media. Med utgångspunkt i vetenskaps- och teknikstudier och dataantropologi har min senaste etnografiska fältarbete främst fokuserat på lokaliserande medier och mobila vloggning. Jag är universitetslektor vid institutionen för geografi, medier och kommunikation vid Karlstads universitet. Min främsta forskningsintressen omfattar mobila medier, mänsklig rörlighet, expertisens ekologier och kunskap av biologisk mångfald i städer. Jag har genomfört långvarigt etnografiskt fältarbete i Estland, Norge, Singapore, Turkiet och på Irland. Jag har forskat mycket om hur lokal kunskap, platsskapande och medieteknologier hänger ihop. Innan jag flyttade till Sverige arbetade jag som lektor vid institutionen för media och kommunikation vid Erasmus University Rotterdam. Jag har också haft forskningsstipendier vid Centre of Excellence in Media Innovation and Digital Culture, Tallinn University, och vid Institutionen för socialantropologi, Norges teknisk-naturvetenskapliga universitet. De viktigaste resultaten av min forskning om turismmedier har publicerats i monografin Locating the influencer: Place and platform in global tourism (Emerald, 2024). Jag har varit medordförande i arbetsgruppen Migration and Mobility inom International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) sedan 2023.

Jag undervisar på grundnivå och avancerad nivå. Tillsammans med kollegor har jag utvecklat kurser för vårt masterprogram i geomedia studier och i olika kurser på grundnivå.

Ritter, C. (2025). Mediating nature: Expertise and species data in the climate crisis. kritisk etnografi – Swedish Journal of Anthropology. 

Ritter, C. (2024). The epistemic culture of data minimalism: Conducting an ethnography of travel influencers. In Hendry, N. & Richardson, I. (eds.) Data Excess in Digital Media Research.

J Sinanan, J. &  C. Ritter (2024). Emerging media technologies in the tourist encounter. Editorial in Tourism Geographies.

Ritter, C. (2024). Locating the influencer: Place and platform in global tourism. Emerald.

Jansson, A. &  Ritter, C. (2024). Mapping geomedia studies: Origins, trajectories, and future directions. Media and Communication.

Ritter, C. (2023). Gazing from the air: tourist encounters in the age of travel drones. Tourism Geographies.

Ritter, C. (2023). Digital ethnography: Understanding platform labour from within. In (Eds.), C. Tagliaro, M. Orel, & Y. Hua Methodological Approaches for Workplace Research and Management. Routledge. 

Ritter, C. (2022). Unlocking Heritage in situ: Tourist Places and Augmented Reality in Estonia. In E. Costa, P. Lange, N. Haynes, & J. Sinanan (Eds.) The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology.

Ritter, C. (2022). The Augmented Reality of Tourist Sites: Strolling into Singapore’s Heritages. In R. Trandafoiu (Ed.) Border Crossings and Mobilities on Screen, Routledge.

Ritter, C. (2022). Reinventing Luxury Travel Imaginaries: Early Responses of Travel Influencers to the COVID-19 Pandemic. In A. Kotur & S. Dixit (Eds.) Emerald Handbook on Luxury Management for Tourism and Hospitality.

Ritter, C. (2021). Rethinking Digital Ethnography: A Qualitative Approach to Understanding Interfaces. Qualitative Research.

Ritter, C. (2020). From Print Media to Blogs: A Note on Rewriting Heritage. In U. Kockel, P. McDermott, & L. Campbell (Eds.) Per Scribendum, Sumus. Ethnopoesis, or: Writing Heritage. A Cèilidh in Honour of Mairéad Nic Craith, LIT Verlag.

Ritter, C. (2019). Shifting Needs for Expertise: Digitized Taskscapes in the Norwegian Oil and Gas Industry. The Extractive Industries and Society.

Liestøl, G., Ritter, C., & Ibrus, I. (2019). Audiovisual Industries and Tourism: Forms of Convergence. In I. Ibrus (Ed.) Emergence of Cross-innovation Systems, Emerald.

Ritter, C. (2018). Distributing Services Through the Cloud Infrastructure: The Case of a Norwegian Software Firm. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research. Conference Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. Montreal, Canada.

Ritter, C. (2017). The Moroccan Diaspora in Istanbul: Experiencing Togetherness through Participatory Media. Cultural Analysis.

Ritter, C., & Kmec, V. (2017). Religious Practices and Networks of Belonging in an Immigrant Congregation: the German-Speaking Lutheran Congregation in Dublin. Journal for Contemporary Religion.

Ritter, C. (2017). Travel Technology. In L. Lowry, & J. Golson (Eds.) The Sage International Encyclopedia of Travel and Tourism. Sage Publications.

Ritter, C. (2017). Leisure Travel, Sociology of. In L. Lowry, & J. Golson (Eds.) The Sage International Encyclopedia of Travel and Tourism. Sage Publications.

Ritter, C. (2016). Sudan, Tourism. In: Jafari, J.; Xiao, H. (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Tourism. Springer Press.

Ritter, C. (2016). Digital Freedom and Political Change: A Discourse Analysis of the Struggle over Water Charges in Ireland. Selected Papers of Internet Research (SPIR). Conference Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. Berlin, Germany.

Ritter, C. (2015). Balancing the Here and There: Transnational Mobilities of Moroccan Middle-class Professionals in Istanbul. Anthropology of the Middle East.

Ritter, C. (2015). Unveiling the Unspoken in Life Narratives: the Dynamics of Storytelling in the Lutheran Congregation in Belfast. Civilisations. Revue internationale d'anthropologie and des sciences humaines.

Ritter, C. (2014). Building Digitized Spaces on Facebook: an Ethnographic Exploration of the Irish Diaspora Community in Munich. In: Proceedings of the Third Argumentor Conference on Argumentation and Rhetoric. Partium Press. Partium Christian University, Romania.

Ritter, C. (2013). Creating Networks of Support: the Lutheran Circle in Dublin. Popular Anthropology Magazine.

Ritter, C. (2011). Lebensläufe zwischen familiarer Tradierung und sozialer Integration. Eine biografische Untersuchung zur Immigration in Strasbourg. In: Alzheimer, H. et al. (Eds.) Jahrbuch für Europäische Ethnologie. Frankreich. Schöningh.

Ritter, C. (2008). Frühlingsrollen in der Diaspora. Asiatische Lebensmittel jenseits der Enklavenökonomie. In R. Römhild et al. (Eds.) Fast Food. Slow Food. Ethnographische Studien zum Verhältnis von Globalisierung und Regionalisierung in der Ernährung. Kulturanthropologische Notizen.