Written by sydneyyeagerNovember 19, 2015November 19, 2015

ANTHROPOLOGY OF ICT: CELLULAR INTERNET, SOCIAL MEDIA, MOBILE MONEY, DECENTRALIZED ARCHITECTURE, BIG DATA

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. […]

Written by sydneyyeagerNovember 19, 2015November 20, 2015

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 […]