Human-Centric AI: Understanding Technology’s Impact on Society
As a digital anthropologist, studying all digital technology from a human-centric approach allows me to focus on how the technology impacts the humans who use it and human…
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Exploring Digital Anthropology: A Day in the Life
The podcast, A Day in the Life of a Digital Anthropologist, takes listeners on a journey into the daily lives of digital anthropologists and explores what it really…
How Anthropologists Excel in User Experience Careers
In the Anthro to UX podcast, Matt provides insights for anthropologists looking to break into user experience (UX) research through conversations with leading anthropologists working in UX. He…
Adolfo Estalella and Alberto Corsin Jimeniz on their book, Free Culture and the City
Cornell University Press Nomaan Hasan: I want to begin with the observation that the ethnographic attention of this book is devoted to the minor. At the very outset…
CfP: “Digital Ethnography in Post-Pandemic Times: Reflections, Implications, and Innovations”, VANDA2024
DEI goes VANDA2024! We are excited to announce that the CfP for our panel at the Vienna Anthropology Days 2024 (VANDA2024) is online now. The conference will take…
Love and Technology: An Ethnography of Dating App Users in Berlin – review
Fabian Broeker‘s Love and Technology: An Ethnography of Dating App Users in Berlin explores how dating apps mediate intimacy among young Berliners. Presenting an immersive ethnography of app usa…
Algorithmic Imaginations in Agriculture: Automation?
In 2022, I was conducting my doctoral dissertation research on data-driven, automated digital farming technologies (drones, autosteering, sensors, GIS, smartphones, Big Data) in Turkey. Amidst the glo…
Sonia Livingstone on her co-authored book, Parenting for a Digital Future
https://global.oup.com/ushe/product/parenting-for-a-digital-future-9780190874704?cc=us&lang=en& Interview by Ashley McDermott Ashley McDermott: Your work looks at how techn…
Mamá quiero ser youtuber (y mi profe también). O del sinsentido en la innovación educativa.
Read Time:2 Minute, 44 Second En los últimos años (y no tan últimos) parece que la educación no para de cambiar. El nuevo mandamien…
The TikTok of Anthropology
Author: Daniel Miller I want to make a slightly surprising suggestion. That my current ambition in anthropology is to become more like TikTok (or its original Chinese form…
An Anthropological Approach to mHealth: Health & Care in the Smartphone Age
Author: Charlotte Hawkins As part of the ASSA project, we are currently working to publish a volume called: ‘An Anthropological Approach to mHealth: Health & Care in the…
Ori Schwarz on his book, Sociological Theory for Digital Society
https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Sociological+Theory+for+Digital+Society%3A+The+Codes+that+Bind+Us+Together-p-9781509542963 Interview by: Dan M. Kotliar Dan Kotliar: There is something very conv…
Trinidad – The Potential of ‘Online Only’ Ethnography
By Daniel Miller and Sheba Mohammid The ASSA project runs until October 2022. Mostly the last year of the project is dedicated to publishing our results, for example…
Illustrating ASSA’s findings with comics – part 4
By Georgiana Murariu and Laura Haapio-Kirk In this blog post, we present the fourth comic in our ASSA comics series, this time set in Kyoto, one of Laura…
La segunda era de la máquina: 4ª revolución industrial
Read Time:14 Minute, 36 Second Querido lector o lectora, estoy seguro de que has leído u oído más de una vez la celebérrima frase d…
Mi generación
Aquellos que nacimos a mediados de los años setenta y que estamos a punto de pasar el ecuador que separa la década de los cuarenta en dirección a…
El teatro de Instagram o por qué le añades efectos a tus selfies
Abres Instagram, vas a la sección de “añadir historia” y seleccionas el efecto que complemente tu rostro para que refleje tu estado de ánimo, vaya acorde al tipo…
Die Universität als ästhetisch-digitaler Raum. Ein Gespräch mit Oliver Ruf
Wer an einer Hochschule forscht und lehrt, dürfte spätestens in den vergangenen Monaten einen Großteil der Kommunikation und Arbeit in digitale Räume verlegt haben. Doch was könnte oder…
Rachel Plotnick on her book, Power Button
Interview by Kevin Laddapong https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/power-button Kevin Laddapong: In Power Button, you bring readers back to the early days of buttons and encourage readers to think…
Philip Seargeant on his new book The Emoji Revolution
Interview by Kevin Laddapong https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/emoji-revolution-how-technology-shaping-future-communication Kevin Laddapo…
Ofrendas para la economía. El monstruo que nunca duerme
La economía sufre, pero no todos los sectores están siendo afectados de igual manera. Las farmacéuticas, aunque han experimentado pérdidas debido a la bajada de demanda de medicamentos…
Bordering the Digital Europe
Photo by — @pawel_czerwinski Historical contingencies and dynamic geographies for current future imaginaries of European borders Introduction The European Union is constructing new narratives of borderle…
Connection and Inequality in the Remote Classroom
The switchover to remote teaching in the wake of COVID-19 has prompted a flurry of conversation among academics regarding technology’s (in)capabilities in replicating the conventional in-person classr…
Ethnography and the Internet – what´s next?
The Internet has been attracting researchers’ attention for long. As a relatively new territory, it presents a methodological challenge. For anthropologists as well. On the one hand, it…