2nd Edition

Digital Anthropology

Edited By Haidy Geismar, Hannah Knox Copyright 2021
348 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

348 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

348 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Digital 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... Read more

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

Biography

Haidy Geismar is Professor of Anthropology at UCL, UK.

Hannah Knox is Associate Professor of Anthropology at UCL, UK.