A digital anthropologist examines the online lives of millions of people in China, India, Brazil,
and across the Middle East—home to most of the world's internet users—and discovers that …

Anthropology has two main tasks: to understand what it is to be human and to examine how
humanity is manifested differently in the diversity of culture. These tasks have gained new …

This review examines studies of the affordances of digital technologies that produce
virtuality. What we can call a “technological turn” in the literature considers technology a first …

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds is the only book of its kind—a concise, comprehensive, and
practical guide for students, teachers, designers, and scholars interested in using …

The digital should and can be a highly effective means for reflecting upon what it means to
be human, the ultimate task of anthropology as a discipline. To date, most of the literature on …

Information produced and disseminated by an interlocking ecology of computer-based
systems and artifacts currently provides the essential means for planning organizational …

'The digital'is defined here as new technologies that are ultimately reducible to binary code.
These have made many cultural artefacts easier and quicker to both reproduce and to share …

Sociotechnical imaginaries are futures that people envision might be possible and
desirable. They have a real impact on how systems are designed and what values they have …

′ This is the media and society text that critical scholars have been waiting for′.-Professor
Mark Andrejevic, Pomona College This book unpacks the role of the media in social, cultural …

In this chapter, I examine whether and to what degree the physical or material substratum of
technologies and technological objects affect the shaping of their functionalities, and the …