Anthropology and the Twitter Challenge
For many of us in anthropology, the advent of “big data” represents a threat. Why, after all, spend months developing rapport and …
J.K. Rowling und die Sehnsucht nach der heilen Welt der sauberen Kategorien
J.K. Rowling steht massiv in der Kritik: Die Autorin der Harry Potter-Romane hatte wiederholt Cisfrauen gegen Transfrauen ausgespielt. Nach Erscheinen des neuen …
Abstract for a paper-in-progress: quarantine and sentiment analysis.
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: sentiment analyses of new connections and communities in a COVID world. …
Threats to Destroy Cultural Heritage Harm Us All
Trump’s Twitter intimidation may have been politically expedient bluster. But, it threatened our collective cultural legacy, regional stability, and scientific inquiry. When …
#AcademicTwitter: A How-To Guide for Anthropologists
[Footnotes is excited to present a guest post by Jules Weiss. Jules Weiss (they/them pronouns) is a 2nd year MA student in …
Morgue employee cremated by mistake while taking a nap
Online misinformation, fake news, false news, hoaxes, you name it, has been blamed for almost everything bad happening in the last years, …
The Internet & Democracy: Have We Learned Anything?
In the first wake of the Egyptian uprisings, and their framing as a “Facebook” revolution or Twitter revolution or “social media revolution” there …
Speaking with Silence
Silence can be a powerful communicative tool in today’s political landscape. Words take center stage in the verbal sparring of the Twitter …
#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 …
Welcome to the Instabition! #EmergingDigitalPractices
Dear Allegra readers, welcome to this week’s new #thread on emerging digital practices! Today’s post introduces not only this theme but also me, …
Notes from inside a Twitter Experiment #EmergingDigitalPractices
Using participation in a collective online experiment with Twitter as a springboard, I interrogate the tweet as a fieldnote. How do the …
Now Posting on Medium (Medieval Indonesia)
It’s been a while since I’ve updated this blog, but I wanted to let any readers/subscribers know that I’m now writing on …
A Bully in the Presidential Bully Pulpit
In her book, The Bully Pulpit, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin examines Theodore Roosevelt’s leadership during his time as president. In successfully working …
Tweeting religion in Indonesia: when political arenas go viral
Postill, J. and L.C. Epafras forthcoming 2017. Tweeting religion in Indonesia: when political arenas go viral. American Ethnologist (virtual issue) The popularity …
Coding Culture II: Four Hacks to Digitize Your Anthropology Classroom
This is the second post in a multi-part blog series in which Katherine Cook shares her experiences integrating digital anthropology into her …
Coding Culture: Why Anthropology Students (and Their Instructors) Should Learn to Code
This is the first in a multi-part blog series in which Katherine Cook shares her experiences integrating digital anthropology into her teaching. From …
#AMANTH2016 WRAP-UP
The American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting is over, and, with it, the brief spurt of Twitter traffic that marks the event. Here’s …
Hashtag Chaos: #AAA2016 vs. #amanth2016
As I’ve done over the past 3 years, I ran Twitter searches for the American Anthropological Association Annual meeting this evening. Unlike …
Multimodality Through Twitter: Exploring the Alleyways of Seoul
Multimodality describes an anthropology across multiple media platforms–an anthropology that traverses film, photograph, theater, design, podcast, app and game (to name a …
Why do brands lose their chill? How bots, algorithms, and humans can work together on social media
Editor’s Note: The fourth contributor to the Co-designing with machines edition is Molly Templeton (@mollymeme), digital and social media expert, Director of …
Normativity and social visibility
It has been exactly a year since finishing 15 months of fieldwork in Trinidad. Stories for this blog have moved further and …
Aspiring Politician? Try Facebook to build your personal brand.
Image Courtesy: @mkstalin and image shared on Saravanan’s Facebook profile Personal brand building through social media requires a strategically planned presentation of …
Tweeting Sweden: Technological Solutionism, #RotationCuration, and the World’s Most Democratic Twitter Account
I have a new publication out in the Theorizing the Web special issue of the open access journal Interface. Check it out! I …