Thursday, November 19, 2015: 1:45 PM-3:30 PM Mineral Hall E (Hyatt Regency) This panel explores practices and discourses on and about digital media and how these pertain to the shifting boundaries of youth—boundaries of who are and what it means to be “youth”; ethical boundaries of what is acceptable for young people to express; political […]
Thursday, November 19, 2015: 10:15 AM-12:00 PM 603 (Colorado Convention Center) This roundtable focuses on critical explorations in anthropological storytelling. Bringing together a variety of scholars whose work pushes beyond the traditional practices of the discipline, we explore how anthropologists can move beyond the familiar forms and methods of ethnography through the use of visual, […]
Thursday, November 19, 2015: 4:00 PM-5:45 PM 102 (Colorado Convention Center) This panel contextualizes contemporary Information and Communications Technology (ICT) within complex power topographies and explores how people creatively invent, adopt, adapt and resist ICT in various contexts. Academics are increasingly fascinated by the rapid global proliferation of ICT, even within impoverished and marginalized communities. […]
Thursday, November 19, 2015: 4:00 PM-5:45 PM Capital Ballroom 1 (Hyatt Regency) As digital technologies become ever more ubiquitous as artefacts and infrastructures via which human relations are conducted, this panel explores an approach to digital relations that asks not whether the digital is virtual or real, but just what kind of reality the digital […]
Digital Anthropology continues to have a strong presence at the American Anthropological Conference this fall. The #AAA2015 schedule has 198 results for the word “digital” alone. Anthropological research utilizing digital methods and addressing virtual worlds and digital technology has had growing presence at the AAAs continuously over the last 5 years, probably long that’s just […]
Friday, November 20, 2015: 8:00 AM-9:45 AM 205 (Colorado Convention Center) Facebook provides opportunities for self-presentation as a stage and a world of mimetic potential and activity (Taussig 1993). Facebook is a space for making the peripheral central, the banal enticing, and negotiating identity through the power of narrative. Panelists bring their ethnographic toolbox to […]
Saturday, November 21, 2015: 1:45 PM-3:30 PM 102 (Colorado Convention Center) This session proposes an examination of digitized grammars: the differing sets of linguistic, visual, and sound cues which act as indicators for meaning construction during computer-mediated communication (CMC). Depending upon the Internet platform and the medium used, digitized grammars may consist of structures that […]
Saturday, November 21, 2015: 4:00 PM-5:45 PM 603 (Colorado Convention Center) Digital sociality is a relatively new space for ethnographic inquiry. As such, anthropologists are beginning to analyze the online/offline engagements of ethnographic subjects. And yet, we are not starting from zero when we consider the online lives of participants, particularly when we consider recent […]
Friday, November 20, 2015: 10:15 AM-12:00 PM Capital Ballroom 3 (Hyatt Regency) Chair: Margaret Souza (SUNY/Empire State College) 10:15 AM Chronic Illness Management in the Digital Age: Electronic Medical Records and Clinician Autonomy Linda M Hunt (Michigan State University) and Allison Baker (Michigan State University) 10:30 AM Digitizing Cancer Survivorship Care Tara Eaton (Research Consultant/Wayne […]
Saturday, November 21, 2015: 1:45 PM-3:30 PM Centennial H (Hyatt Regency) “New media” outlets are frequently hailed as sites of linguistic freedom from normative standardization and of transnational connections that transcend social units such as the nation-state. However, digitally mediated communication platforms and the networks of speakers they connect are frequently made intelligible through references […]
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