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Digitalisation

48 hours of digital detox: can you survive without your digital devices?

Digital Anthropology students stayed offline for 48 hours to understand their relationship with digital technologies. How did they survive without devices? Their experiences ranged from strong 'FOMO' to empowerment. What would digital detox mean to you?

Zane Kripe • 16-01-2017

Digitalisation

Street photography and ethnographic ethics

With the accessibility of new technology and digital cameras, most of us anthropologists these days routinely make images in the field. But how do we handle the issues of trust, privacy and other ethics of ethnographic image-making?

Mark Westmoreland • 10-05-2016

Digitalisation

Function Creep

After last years revelations of the NSA spying activities, hackers often despair over the lack of public interest in online privacy. An anthropological focus on the specific context of such activism may help explain this.

Dorien Zandbergen • 07-04-2014

Diversity

The problem of ‘culture’ in the New Economy

Governments around the world postulate digital entrepreneurship as the key to their nations’ economic future. Yet it seems that this call for more entrepreneurial citizens also goes hand in hand with a request to change culture.

Zane Kripe • 27-05-2013

Diversity

Exposing the interface: the critical future of (cyborg) anthropology

Should ditigal research by anthropologists, or <i>cyborg anthropology</i>, be made available as a corporate market research technique? Or should it make explicit how our “predictions” for the future normalize political and corporate interests?

Dorien Zandbergen • 22-04-2013

Blogs

48 hours of digital detox: can you survive without your digital devices?

Street photography and ethnographic ethics

Function Creep

The problem of ‘culture’ in the New Economy

Exposing the interface: the critical future of (cyborg) anthropology