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The Digital Anthropologist: April 2013
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Digital anthropology: key concepts. My research / talks. Sunday, 7 April 2013. Some old chestnuts about social media recycled in an Observer article today. The Observer has just carried a long piece. About young Youtubers threatening the traditional TV model. Good on them: traditional TV is a bit of a dinosaur. Here are some further readings if you like a side order of analysis with your light reading on a Sunday:. Whilst this Atlantic article. And this critique of the culture of celebratisation. Someone...
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The Digital Anthropologist: February 2015
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Digital anthropology: key concepts. My research / talks. Tuesday, 24 February 2015. Giving a talk tomorrow on ‘Deep Data’. It’s at London Olympia at 11am. Here’s the link. And here’s the plan: First a sweeping overview of one of the most important drivers of human behaviour and attitudes, why this is important for organisations to understand and where social scientists like anthropologists fit in all of this. We’ll then look at some tech and. After I tie everything up, some recommended reading. UsageWatc...
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The Digital Anthropologist: Cyberbullying: an anthropological take
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Digital anthropology: key concepts. My research / talks. Tuesday, 23 June 2015. Cyberbullying: an anthropological take. I was asked recently to provide an anthropological take on childhood cyberbullying by IDG Connect. The article is here (. Http:/ www.idgconnect.com/abstract/9950/are-sexting-cyberbullying-worse-offline-versions). And my full commentary is below…. Prominent social scientist danah boyd*. Marwick, Alice and danah boyd. (2014). Journal of Youth Studies. Posted by Nik Pollinger @digitalanthro.
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The Digital Anthropologist: ‘Anti-social networking’ site Pencourage: 'Antidote' to polished Facebook profiles?
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Digital anthropology: key concepts. My research / talks. Thursday, 11 September 2014. 8216;Anti-social networking’ site Pencourage: 'Antidote' to polished Facebook profiles? I was asked recently by a journalist from the Press Association to comment on the anonymous site. It has been dubbed as the anti-social network and the 'real-life Facebook' because users are encouraged to be completely honest about their lives. Pencourage is reselling us the popular fantasy that we have. A single authentic self.
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The Digital Anthropologist: January 2013
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Digital anthropology: key concepts. My research / talks. Wednesday, 16 January 2013. Concepts in #digital #anthropology. Just updated the reference resource on my blog with entries on everything from cyberspace to identity - full list of updated and added subjects below:. Moral panics and technology. Sociability: changes fostered by new communication technology. Posted by Nik Pollinger @digitalanthro. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Concepts in #digital #anthropology. View my complete profile.
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The Digital Anthropologist: Twitter and malaria: Joining forces to fight poverty
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Digital anthropology: key concepts. My research / talks. Thursday, 19 December 2013. Twitter and malaria: Joining forces to fight poverty. That was my reaction too as I read an. Which came to the radical conclusion that Twitter and malaria are bedfellows in the global fight against poverty. This mosquito has shares in Twitter. Image courtesy It's Nico. Under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 licence. The anthropological evidence, unsurprisingly, paints a more nuanced picture. Namely in general terms digital technology...
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The Digital Anthropologist: July 2013
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Digital anthropology: key concepts. My research / talks. Tuesday, 2 July 2013. Gartner: Digital anthropologists are the latest must have accessory for CIOs. In an article via @hanmuli http:/ www.cfoworld.com/operations/67497/cios-next-hire-digital-anthropologist. Technology research behemoth Gartner has finally noticed that anthropological thinking might be useful for CIOs. Gartner is definitely behind the curve on this one because anthropologists have been profitably deployed at places such as Xerox PARC.
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The Digital Anthropologist: Giving a talk tomorrow on ‘Deep Data’
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Digital anthropology: key concepts. My research / talks. Tuesday, 24 February 2015. Giving a talk tomorrow on ‘Deep Data’. It’s at London Olympia at 11am. Here’s the link. And here’s the plan: First a sweeping overview of one of the most important drivers of human behaviour and attitudes, why this is important for organisations to understand and where social scientists like anthropologists fit in all of this. We’ll then look at some tech and. After I tie everything up, some recommended reading. UsageWatc...
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The Digital Anthropologist: February 2012
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Digital anthropology: key concepts. My research / talks. Thursday, 23 February 2012. Interesting talk by UCL Material Culture masters grad Sam Barton who is works at commercial semiotics company Added Value yesterday at the UCL #anthropology department. He ran through the conventional company credentials and then explained the origins of commercial semiotics in literary criticism and cultural studies before engaging in a bit of deconstruction. Posted by Nik Pollinger @digitalanthro. Someone who thinks th...
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The Digital Anthropologist: June 2015
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Digital anthropology: key concepts. My research / talks. Tuesday, 23 June 2015. Cyberbullying: an anthropological take. I was asked recently to provide an anthropological take on childhood cyberbullying by IDG Connect. The article is here (. Http:/ www.idgconnect.com/abstract/9950/are-sexting-cyberbullying-worse-offline-versions). And my full commentary is below…. Prominent social scientist danah boyd*. Marwick, Alice and danah boyd. (2014). Journal of Youth Studies. Posted by Nik Pollinger @digitalanthro.
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