FIRST ANNUAL AAA VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: FAMILIAR/STRANGE IN THE DIGITAL LANDSCAPE

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 […]

ETHNOGRAPHIC ENGAGEMENTS WITH DIGITAL ALTERITY I

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 […]

TRANSNATIONAL PROCESSES OF MEDIATIZATION WITHIN A DIGITAL MOMENT

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 […]

GRAPPLING WITH THE FAMILIAR/STRANGE IN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDIES OF YOUNG PEOPLE DOING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Friday, November 20, 2015: 10:15 AM-12:00 PM 706 (Colorado Convention Center) An increasing number of anthropologists of education are turning their attention to studies of science and technology among young people in schools, in learning communities outside of school, in sites of popular culture, and in virtual spaces. Drawing on the longer tradition of science […]