By Vito Laterza John Bryden, longtime associate of the Human Economy group and professor at the Norwegian Agricultural Economics Research Institute, and his colleague Klaus Mittenzwei, received th…
By Vito Laterza John Bryden, longtime associate of the Human Economy group and professor at the Norwegian Agricultural Economics Research Institute, and his colleague Klaus Mittenzwei, received th…
By Vito Laterza John Bryden, longtime associate of the Human Economy group and professor at the Norwegian Agricultural Economics Research Institute, and his colleague Klaus Mittenzwei, received th…
By Vito Laterza John Bryden, longtime associate of the Human Economy group and professor at the Norwegian Agricultural Economics Research Institute, and his colleague Klaus Mittenzwei, received th…
by Katya Tokareva PhD Candidate RMIT University, Melbourne See other posts on the digital ethnography reading group (DERG) In the fourth session of the monthly Digital Ethnography Reading…
“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…
It has been exactly a year since finishing 15 months of fieldwork in Trinidad. Stories for this blog have moved further and further away from cool stuff that…
One of the chapters of our forthcoming book How the World Changed Social Media, which will be published as an Open Access book by UCL Press in February…
Many people I meet, even people I talk to on a regular basis, do not have background knowledge of anthropology, and I think that is fairly typical. Anthropology…
The strength of anthropology is that we are always learning, gathering data isn’t something we do in a lab or even something we can easily shut off. We…
by Will Balmford PhD Candidate RMIT University, Melbourne See other posts on the digital ethnography reading group (DERG) This session we discussed Helen Kennedy’s 2003 article Technobiography: Rese…
The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition is pleased to announce the 2015 Thomas Marchione Award. Honoring the seminal academic and humanitarian work of Thomas J. Marchione, this…
Like most academics, I’m obsessive. I spend a lot of my free time doing searches for new research on recreational drug use. I do this partly because there’s…
Despite increasingly widespread attention to disability rights, disability outcomes in the United States remain shockingly divided by race. Few people realize that having a disability today is literal…
A Case for Paying It Forward in Anthropology A few months before starting a new job as president of a residential research institute that primarily supports anthropology and…
Recently Amnesty International voted to pursue a policy advocating the decriminalisation of sex work (sort of). If you were judging the issues by what Big Media told you,…
by Will Balmford Research assistant Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) School of Media and Communication RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia Hello all, Welcome to round three of DERG! We’ve…
Understanding why households become over-indebted is a crucial step to planning interventions at the level of the consumer or through policy, but it is not a straightforward task.…
A team of researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Innovations for Poverty Action Sierra Leone developed a study evaluating the use of mobile…
A team of researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Innovations for Poverty Action Sierra Leone developed a study evaluating the use of mobile…
A team of researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Innovations for Poverty Action Sierra Leone developed a study evaluating the use of mobile…
A team of researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Innovations for Poverty Action Sierra Leone developed a study evaluating the use of mobile…
This article that I wrote with David Zeitlyn and Viktor Mayer-Schönberger based on the digital ethnographic research I did for the Oxford Internet Institute/Oxford Anthropology in 2014/15 came…
I haven’t yet seen any official announcement from the AAA about the change,1 but if you now click on the “Login to use AnthroSource now” link from the…