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 …
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 …
Mi generación
Aquellos que nacimos a mediados de los años setenta y que estamos a punto de pasar el ecuador que separa la década …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Before They Erase It: Memory and the social media archive
Disponible en español aquí. This afternoon, I began to notice increasingly alarming images, posts, and tweets from my interlocutors in Santiago. It …
Haidy Geismar on her new book, Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/browse-books/museum-object-lessons-for-the-digital-age Interview by Joshua Bell Joshua Bell: Your book is a manifesto of sorts of what the digital – as a relatively …
Digitized global mobilities’ The role of new media and digitization in the security approaches of the refugee crisis
3- 4 June, 2019, Utrecht University Digitization and the use of social media has dramatically changed most aspects of our everyday practices, …
Participatory approaches to design digital cultural futures. An interview with R. C. Smith
Rachel Charlotte Smith is assistant professor of design anthropology at Aarhus University. Her research focuses on relations between design, culture and technology, specifically on …
CfP for AAA2018: Inter-topia: Productive tensions within the collisions of techno-utopianism and techno-dystopianism
Panel Organizers: Jeremy Trombley (SUNY Cortland) and Angela VandenBroek (Binghamton University) Sites of digital technology development are immersed in competing techno-utopian and …
The Picket Line in the Digital Age
Joseph Cook -MPhil/PhD Anthropology @joseph_m_cook The following is the transcript from a talk given on Monday 26th February as part of …
Talking to the BBC about social media in China
Earlier this month, I was very fortunate to be interviewed by the BBC on my research onto the use of technology in …
“The Value of Social Media” at the AAA conference
Daniel Miller talking at the AAA conference. Photo by Nell Haynes. From the Why We Post Team, Nell Haynes, Tom McDonald, and …
Emergent Brazilians comment the impeachment of the president
This is one of the memes circulating among low income Brazilians in reference to the impeachment of President Dilma. The top comment …
Benjamin Peters’ (2016) fascinating essay on the keyword ‘digital’
A physical copy of the brand new book Digital Keywords (2016) has just arrived through the post. On first inspection, it looks …
The future of designing autonomous systems will involve ethnographers
Note from the Editor, Tricia Wang: Next up in our Co-designing with machines edition is Madeleine Clare Elish, (@mcette), is an anthropologist and researcher at …
An Engineering Anthropologist: Why tech companies need to hire software developers with ethnographic skills
Note from the Editor, Tricia Wang: I’m very please to announce that the next contributor in the Co-designing with machines edition is Astrid …
The human-side of artificial intelligence and machine learning
Note from the Editor, Tricia Wang: Next up in our Co-designing with machines edition is Steven Gustafson (@stevengustafson), founder of the Knowledge Discovery Lab at the General …