Is there an Ontology to the Digital
On another digital note, I am really pleased to see the fantastic Digital Ontology collection of essays that Antonia and I collated is now up on the Cultural…
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Digital Infrastructure course blog
I’ve been running a course at UCL this term called Digital Infrastructure: Materiality, Information, Politics and the students have been uploading blog posts each week on an infrastructure…
Donna Haraway’s new book: Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chtulucene
Donna Haraway’s new book is out in September with Duke University Press: Description In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers prov…
Trumpmenbashi: Central Asian dictatorship and American tabloid spectacle
My first article for The Diplomat is on the parallels between Donald Trump and the leaders of Central Asian authoritarian states: In January, shortly before he began sweeping…
Natural Infrastructures: Sediment, Science, and the Future of Southeast Louisiana
By Monica Patrice Barra, The Graduate Center, City University of New York § Losing a football field an hour “Historical and projected coastal Louisiana land changes: 1978-2050” (www.lacoas…
32. Review of Firebrand Waves of Digital Activism 1994–2014 (Karatzogianni 2015)
This is the thirty-second post in the freedom technologists series Postill, J. in press 2016. Review of Karatzogianni, A. (2015) Firebrand Waves of Digital Activism 1994–2014. Palgrave Macmillan…
Strategies to Support Your “Typical” Kids
I was thrilled to have a piece published by The Mighty last week. My aim was to reach as many parents as possible with a few key strategies…
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präsentiert im Doppelpack: Der Kapitän segelt nach Amazon (55 Minuten) Feature von SEROTONIN Das ist doch heutzutage ganz einfach, wenn man ein Buch veröffentlichen möchte. Wenn es…
Squeezing one year of fieldwork in New Zealand in three months
By Vivian Mac Gillavry Photo: A. Martineau During the first year of my Bachelor study in anthropology, we were told that the best field research should take at…
31. Hacktivism and open data in Latin America
This is the thirty-first post in the freedom technologists series I am spending three busy weeks in Lima (Peru) as well as a few days in Quito (Ecuador)…
Heartbroken in the Heartland
For The Globe and Mail, I wrote about the decline of the Midwest, and the attempts of politicians to court Midwestern voters: Missouri is a purple state – purple,…
Sham and the Rock on 17th March, St. Patrick’s Day
St. Patrick’s Day is upon us once more. How are you going to celebrate yours? 17th March is a set date in the religious, secular and Diaspora calendars.…
What’s the Real Point of Brand Purpose? A Perspective on Purpose Alignment and Activation
This post was originally published for my business, Culture and can be found here Having spent the last 16 years working with a cornucopia of legacy brand and marketing…
My time in line with the Trump fans
For the Guardian, I wrote about the St. Louis Trump rally, and how easily a line of polite and friendly Trump fans transformed into a violent mob hurling…
Revisiting the Human in These Multispecies Landscapes
By Jared Margulies, University of Maryland Baltimore County, photographs by Indra Kumar, reproduced with permission § Indra shows me some photographs he’s taken recently of a variety of animals. I’m…
2016 Election: Referendum on Racism
I’ve been a bit slow about updating this website, apologies readers. Here is an article I wrote for the Globe and Mail a week ago about racism in the…
Confessions of a Reluctant Climate Project Collaborator
By Micha Rahder, Louisiana State University § Let me start with a confession: I never wanted to work on climate change. Laguna del Tigre National Park, Guatemala. Photo…
Anthropology in Business?
“We Are All Anthropologists Now” aired on BBC Radio 4 in February of this year as part of a series that explores anthropology in…
30. Review of From Counterculture to Cyberculture (Turner 2006)
Book review by Paul Duguid, Jan 3, 2007 From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism by Fred Turner Chicago: University…
Sonic Sensations of Industry and Fandom at VidCon 2015
As a sociologist of work, my main research focuses on workplace experiences and labor/management relations in media industries. This includes service workers and engineers in the music industry…
An interview with Noemi Charlotte Thieves
I had a chance to interview Noemi Charlotte Thieves on January 10. We were at a going-away party in Brooklyn and fell into conversation. The conversation was SO INTERESTING…
Enclosures
I was thrilled to have the opportunity to contribute a piece to Somatosphere’s series, The Ethnographic Case, edited by Drs. Emily Yates-Doerr and Christine Labuski. I love that site,…
Free e-seminar: ‘It’s like a family!’ The unity and community of journalists
‘It’s like a family!’ The unity and community of journalists: On connections between newsrooms and how journalists share a community of practice Working Paper to the EASA Media…