Towards a Queer Art of Surveillance in South Korea
Editor’s Note: This post was co-written with Timothy Gitzen. When is a face not a face? With the launch of the iPhone X that boasts facial recognition capabilities,…
Tag: Data
EPIC Evidence: with Dawn Nafus and Tye Rattenbury – This Anthro Life
Exploring Evidence This Anthro Life is opening the conversation with EPIC (the Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Community) on the theme of Evidence. Taking center stage at this year’s…
Book Review: Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World by Crystal Biruk
In Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World, Crystal Biruk offers an analysis of the production of data within HIV-AIDS quantitative survey research conducted in Malawi. This…
Data Doppelgängers and Issues of Consent
Editor’s Note: This is the fifth post in our Law in Computation series. In February 2018, journalist Kashmir Hill wrote about her collaboration with researcher Surya Mattu to…
What Do We Owe the Informants Whose Data we Don’t Use?
Ana provided me with generous amounts of knowledge, time, and care. She knew I was doing a doctorate, and the understanding between us was clear: her knowledge, and…
What Can Anthropology Tell us about Data in the 21st Century?
Last week I wrote a comment piece for the Corsham Institute’s Observatory for a Connected Society app asking ‘What can Anthropology tell us about data in the 21st…
The Hidden Harm of Surgery
How the data obfuscate surgical outcomes for obstetric fistula. A Niamey fistula center examination room. Alison Heller As the call to prayer reverberated in the thick, dust-filled evening…
Ethnography & Case-Study Research: Grey Literature
What is “grey literature”? Is this a term that you use in your work? Why does knowing this language matter? The first time I heard the term “grey…
Ethnography & Case-Study Research: Grey Literature
What is “grey literature”? Is this a term that you use in your work? Why does knowing this language matter? The first time I heard the term “grey…
Online Open Research – A collaborative approach
By Matthias Teeuwen – Some time ago I wrote a blog about the possibilities emerging technologies offer to the practice of qualitative research. Back then, I wrote that…
Book Review: Open Data and the Knowledge Society by Bridgette Wessels, Kush Wadhwa, Rachel L. Finn and Thordis Sveinsdottir
In Open Data and the Knowledge Society, authors Bridgette Wessels, Kush Wadhwa, Rachel L. Finn and Thordis Sveinsdottir place the management of open data ecosystems at the heart of the…
One Size Does Not Fit All – Preliminary Findings
On November 13th, anthro everywhere! blogger Jennifer Long continued her One Size Does Not Fit All series where she provides readers with an overview of her new pedagogical…
One Size Does Not Fit All – Preliminary Findings
On November 13th, anthro everywhere! blogger Jennifer Long continued her One Size Does Not Fit All series where she provides readers with an overview of her new pedagogical…
One Size Does Not Fit All – Encouraging Participation without Coercing Participation
We take up from where we left off on November 8th when anthro everywhere! blogger Jennifer Long continued her overview of her new pedagogical research project in collaboration…
One Size Does Not Fit All – Encouraging Participation without Coercing Participation
We take up from where we left off on November 8th when anthro everywhere! blogger Jennifer Long continued her overview of her new pedagogical research project in collaboration…
One Size Does Not Fit All – Research on Mature Students’ Educational Experiences
In a follow up from our post on November 2nd, anthro everywhere! blogger Jennifer Long continues to discuss her new pedagogical research project in collaboration with Ms. Silvie Tanu Halim…
One Size Does Not Fit All – Research on Mature Students’ Educational Experiences
In a follow up from our post on November 2nd, anthro everywhere! blogger Jennifer Long continues to discuss her new pedagogical research project in collaboration with Ms. Silvie Tanu Halim…
One Size Does Not Fit All – Anthropological & Pedagogical Research on Mature Students
In a follow up from our post on Monday, anthro everywhere! blogger Jennifer Long continues to discuss her new pedagogical research project in collaboration with Ms. Silvie Tanu…
Writing better Conference Abstracts and crafting better Posters
We originally planned to write this post for grad students, but really, couldn’t we all benefit fit from learning a bit more about how to write a great…
Data overload
How do we proceed to live in a world in which data overwhelms us? At every point we seem to be participating in capture schemes that reduce us…
Anthropologists Visualizing Data: Packaging Anthropological Knowledge Part Three
In line with the post from earlier this week, Anthro Everywhere! is revisiting the topic of visualizing data in accessible (i.e. easily consumable) ways. What do I mean…
Conversations and Podcasting as Social Technology
This episode is a little different from our normal content. In it we feature a presentation Adam gave for Pivotal Labs in which he explores This Anthro Life’s (and…
How can we talk about our relationship with images? #ThinkingVisually
Why do images matter? How is it that these assemblages of pixels and ink come to shape not only our own view of ourselves, but also of the…
Method and Politics in the Dee Estuary
I am leading a research group at the moment called SLOM:Lab (Social life of Methods Lab). This is a blog post I wrote for the SLOM:Lab.org website last …