CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: A Tumblr Book co-editors: Allison McCracken, American Studies, DePaul University; Louisa Stein, Department of Film and Media Culture, Middlebury College; Alexander Cho, University of California Humanities Research Institute We’re putting together a book to identify ways in which Tumblr has had an important social and industrial impact, both as a digital platform and […]
Roundtable Call for Discussants American Anthropological Association 2016 November 16-20 Minneapolis, MN Please contact Nadia Elmrabet at elmrabet.nadia@gmail.com about participating in this roundtable. Deadline April 12, 2016 After the field: unboxing digital methods and producing data in digital anthropology Organizer: Nadia Elmrabet (University College London) This “debriefing” roundtable session sets out to give a platform to […]
DANG @ #AAA2016 I wanted to stir the pot for Digital Anthropology panels at the AAA Conference this fall. Annual Meeting Theme The 115th Annual Meeting theme, ‘Evidence, Accident, Discovery’, raises issues central to debates within both anthropology and politics in a neoliberal, climate-changing, social media-networked era: What counts as evidence? What does evidence count […]
In this post I am going to provide an overview about those panels at the 14th EASA Biennial Conference entitled “Anthropological legacies and human futures” (Milan, Italy, 20-23 July 2016) which deal with digital media technologies and related issues. This also offers some insight into digital anthropology related research in the European context which in […]
Friday, November 20, 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 […]
Thursday, November 19, 2015: 7:45 PM-9:00 PM Centennial D (Hyatt Regency) Anthropology has always been at the forefront of engaging disparate communities and social issues. The digital revolution has expanded this potential reach and capability, but has brought with it new sets of challenges: issues of authenticity, accessibility, and scholarly credibility weigh on researchers looking […]
Thursday, November 19, 2015: 12:15 PM-1:30 PM 112 (Colorado Convention Center) Digital communication has made it easier for anthropologists to publish for audiences abroad. This roundtable invites journal editors, writers, bloggers, and visual anthropologists to come together to discuss useful strategies for translating and disseminating contemporary research. Organizers: Carolyn Rouse (Princeton University, Department of Anthropology) […]
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: 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 […]
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