Digital anthropology – these two words are relatively simple and complimentary. The class, in a whole, is an attempt to understand how human beings
FOMO writ large: Lecture Notes
From Arjun Appadurai, Fear of Small Numbers: the anxiety and fear of disbelonging - to a nation, community, or simply humanity - fuels the upsurge in
Hippies and Urban Planners: Lecture Notes
What's the connection of Brazilian hippies and urban planners to better understanding digital life? Alternative modernities: the particular
Changes in Media Production: Lecture Notes
"that some of our anthropological critiques (and the belief in anthropological exceptionalism on which they rest) display the very colonial
Mark and Olly: the Virtual Anthropologist
Chapter 9 in Whitehead and Wesch is about two men who visit the Mek for the purposes of live television. The effect is a dramatized anthropological
The Portrayal of Cultures in Media
In class last week, the WaiWai culture and how people feel the need to modernize their culture through information technology reminded me of the
