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Book SynopsisDigital Anthropology, 2nd Edition explores how human and digital can be explored in relation to one another within issues as diverse as social media use, virtual worlds, hacking, quantified self, blockchain, digital environmentalism and digital representation. The book challenges the prevailing moral universal of the digital age by exploring emergent anxieties about the global spread of new technological forms, the cultural qualities of digital experience, critically examining the intersection of the digital to new concepts and practices across a wide range of fields from design to politics.
In this fully revised edition, Digital Anthropology reveals how the intense scrutiny of ethnography can overturn assumptions about the impact of digital culture and reveal its profound consequences for everyday life around the world. Combining case studies with theoretical discussion in an engaging style that conveys a passion for new frontiers of enquiry within anthropologic
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2.0
Haidy Geismar and Hannah Knox
PART I: Positioning
2. Six Principles for a Digital Anthropology
Daniel Miller and Heather Horst
3. Rethinking Digital Anthropology
Tom Boellstorff
PART II: Socializing Digital Anthropology
4. The Anthropology of Mobile Phones
Heather A. Horst
5. The Anthropology of Social Media
Daniel Miller
6. Diverse Digital Worlds
Bart Barendregt
7. Disability in the Digital Age
Faye Ginsburg
8. Devices and Selves: From self-exit to self-fashioning
Natasha Schüll
PART III: Politicizing Digital Anthropology
9. Digital Politics
John Postill
10. Traversing the Infrastructures of Digital Life
Hannah Knox
11. Blockchain
Bill Maurer
12. Digital Economy and Labour
Ilana Gershon and Iris Bull
PART IV: Designing Digital Anthropology
13. Design for and against Digital Anthropology
Adam Drazin
14. Museum + Digital = ?
Haidy Geismar
15. The Role of the Digital Anthropologist in Citizen Science and Public Participation Mapping Projects: A case study or two
David Jeevendrampillai with Gillian Conquest
16. Digital Futures Anthropology
Sarah Pink
