Wholehearted Participation: Attuning to Affect and Immanence in a Virtual Field

Diving into a virtual field in response to COVID-19, my orientation to ethnographic inquiry and writing changed as I joined the ranks of thousands of editors worldwide in contributing to the free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Honing practices for participating in this dynamic virtual field attuned me to felt senses of flow and more-than-human connections that I relate to posthuman concepts of affect and immanence. The essay concludes with potential implications for embracing wholehearted participation as a method. © 2022 by the American Anthropological Association. All rights reserved.