Please check out this provocative collection of papers at cultural anthropology. Edited by Ryan Anderson, Emma Louise Backe, Taylor Nelms, Elizabeth Reddy and Jeremy Trombley (and including my…
As I have done over the past few years (2017, 2016), I returned from AAA2018 and ran some Twitter analytics. Here’s the sociograph I came up with (click…
“The future” (however imagined) continues to be a concern for anthropologists, and this year is no different than 2017. But while I was content to just list the…
https://uploads.knightlab.com/storymapjs/c28f0b6fab85650562ac54dd5cfa403e/my-seoul-fieldwork/index.htmlOver the course of a year of fieldwork in Seoul (2014-2015), I accumulated tons of photographs (a…
(I participated in a workshop organized by two anthropologists studying SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence): Claire Webb and Michael Oman-Reagan. The topic called for us to think…
The joint SCA/SVA “Displacements” conference has come to an end (although the archived presentations will remain up until the end of the month). By all accounts, this virtual…
Apophenia—the recognition of patterns within randomness—is, as Hito Steyerl (2016) has argued, a condition of the rapid multiplication of chaotic plumes of data swirling around us, data riven…
One of the ideas I’ve been playing with over the last few years is the idea of latency in the networked age. As we relate, communicate and move…
On this day devoted (by some) to a genre fiction, my thoughts have turned to dystopia and utopia–these are not, however, co-extensive with SF, but see Fredric Jameson’s…
On Monday, I downloaded #AmAnth17 tweets. This proved in many ways elusive and piecemeal. First, the conference hashtags continue to shift. Last year, the AAA finally discovere…
In Twitterspace, the lead-up to the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting is generally quiet, but I’ll start my analysis this year one week ahead of the game. Here’s…
–> (the Wow! signal, visualized by Benjamin Crowell, from Wikimedia) In a few days, many anthropologists will attend the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. For…
There are many interesting formations that might be called networked phenomena. Homophily and the tendency towards triad closure. Scott Feld’s Rule (I’m more likely to make friends with…
Last July I was using R to do some social network analysis of Instagram tags. After lots of package downloads, App Developer’s applications, etc., I couldn’t get it…
The American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting is over, and, with it, the brief spurt of Twitter traffic that marks the event. Here’s a graph of Twitter traffic over…
As I’ve done over the past 3 years, I ran Twitter searches for the American Anthropological Association Annual meeting this evening. Unlike previous years, though, the #AAA2016 hashtag…
Multimodality describes an anthropology across multiple media platforms–an anthropology that traverses film, photograph, theater, design, podcast, app and game (to name a few) as well as conventional…