Animal Trafficking Is Big Business on Instagram
Social media platforms can be used to perpetuate the trafficking of animals and animal products such as bear bile, which is commonly harvested from Asiatic black bears. Lee…
Social media platforms can be used to perpetuate the trafficking of animals and animal products such as bear bile, which is commonly harvested from Asiatic black bears. Lee…
In Yogyakarta, one of Indonesia’s culturally rich cities, lies Kampoeng Cyber, or “Cyber Village”—a community that caught the attention of Mark Zuckerberg (right), the co-founder of Facebook, for…
A physical copy of the brand new book Digital Keywords (2016) has just arrived through the post. On first inspection, it looks fantastic, and I’ve got the feeling…
On March 23, 2016, Microsoft brought a new artificial intelligence (AI) online. Named Tay, she was linked to social media accounts on Twitter, Facebook, and other sites so…
Since our launch on the 29th February, the first three open access books in the Why We Post series have been downloaded over 6,000 times! 6,000 downloads in just…
Talking with our hands is one of the most human things we do. While commonly used to add emotional emphasis to spoken language, hands have the unique ability…
‘Good morning’ message received on WhatsApp [double-click on the image to see the video]. So, what does the ethnography of social media use in southeast Italy tells us? In my…
The text above the image reads: ‘me without WhatsApp’. In this post Juliano Spyer suggests that the vocal backlash against the recent blocking of WhatsApp in…
The core mission of anthropology is the understanding of human behaviour in a world full of cultural and historical diversity. The anthropological commitment to this immense plurality…
“Internet dog” by Source. Licensed under Fair use via Wikipedia. As illustrated in the cartoon ‘On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog’, published by The New Yorker in 1993, the…
What Animals Teach Us About Politics by Brian Massumi Duke University Press, 2014, 152 pages. This is a book about choice. That reader who chooses non-acquiescence, chooses learning…
Scalable Sociality Right now we are finishing the last of our eleven volumes from this project, a book which will be called How the World Changed Social Media.…
A typical shopfront in the North China fieldsite (Photo: Gillian Bolsover) One surprising feature of QQ – the most popular social media platform in the rural Chinese town where…
This is the 20th of 42 posts in the ongoing Freedom technologists series. By Sebastian Kubitschko via Civic Media Project Despite the longstanding equating of hacking as infused…
In 2012, the Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw exhibited “Chopin at his most indecisive”, showing how Chopin continually revised his works with new versions and annotations. The exhition…
In 2012, the Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw exhibited “Chopin at his most indecisive”, showing how Chopin continually revised his works with new versions and annotations. The exhition…
In 2012, the Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw exhibited “Chopin at his most indecisive”, showing how Chopin continually revised his works with new versions and annotations. The exhition…
In 2012, the Fryderyk Chopin Museum in Warsaw exhibited “Chopin at his most indecisive”, showing how Chopin continually revised his works with new versions and annotations. The exhition…
“We don’t develop in a box”, says Steve Dillon, referring to international music connections during the 19th century. The keyed bugle was invented in Ireland in 1810, around…
“We don’t develop in a box”, says Steve Dillon, referring to international music connections during the 19th century. The keyed bugle was invented in Ireland in 1810, around…
“We don’t develop in a box”, says Steve Dillon, referring to international music connections during the 19th century. The keyed bugle was invented in Ireland in 1810, around…
“We don’t develop in a box”, says Steve Dillon, referring to international music connections during the 19th century. The keyed bugle was invented in Ireland in 1810, around…
Last night, I attended a pleasant concert organized by the County of Istria in memory of Sergio Endrigo, an emigrant who gained fame as a singer/songwriter in Italy…
Last night, I attended a pleasant concert organized by the County of Istria in memory of Sergio Endrigo, an emigrant who gained fame as a singer/songwriter in Italy…