How Digital Ethnography Can Be a Tool to Indigenous Gnoseology

Abstract

In this chapter, the authors stand on a reciprocal research with indigenous gnoseology and try to make space to contribute to the people. This is basically the author's (Jahid's) PhD thesis fieldwork, where this 2020 pandemic has stopped the author from being engaged with people physically. However, using digital tools, maintaining an ethnographic manner and centering reciprocity as a theme, they found that digital ethnography can be meant to stay connected and contributory with the people instead of being a mere contact, rapport, or friendship. As a reflection with a prevailing methods like collaborative, ethnography, or authoethnography, or even phenomenological reciprocal ethnography, the authors negated and showed that all have been suffering from the practice of the original essence of knowledge practice, and this is the aim of this chapter.