Network Ghosts in the Age of Generative AI
What are faculty thinking about generative AI? In my role at our faculty center, I speak to faculty often on the problems they face teaching in the…
Tag: social network analysis
Futures at AAACASCA 2019
The American Anthropological Association/ Canadian Anthropological Society meeting in Vancouver is in November, but the browsable schedule is already out. As in previous years, I have identified…
The Social Network of US Academic Anthropology and Its Inequalities
This project has taken several years to come together, but I’m happy to share that “The Social Network of US Academic Anthropology and Its Inequalities” was recently published…
Mapping the Future at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
“The future” (however imagined) continues to be a concern for anthropologists, and this year is no different than 2017. But while I was content to just list the…
U.S. Academic Anthropology’s Hiring Network
A paper I authored with several colleagues titled “The Social Network of U.S. Academic Anthropology and Its Inequalities” was recently accepted by American Anthropologist and will be publ…
#AmAnth17 Wrap-Up: Anthropology Matters?
On Monday, I downloaded #AmAnth17 tweets. This proved in many ways elusive and piecemeal. First, the conference hashtags continue to shift. Last year, the AAA finally discovere…
Tweeting #AmAnth17 – First in a series
In Twitterspace, the lead-up to the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting is generally quiet, but I’ll start my analysis this year one week ahead of the game. Here’s…
The Partial Truths of Big Data
Last July I was using R to do some social network analysis of Instagram tags. After lots of package downloads, App Developer’s applications, etc., I couldn’t get it…
Review of The Logic of Connective Action by Bennett and Segerberg
The Logic of Connective Action: Digital Media and the Personalization of Contentious Politics. W.L. Bennett and A. Segerberg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 240 pp. John Postill RMIT…