Digital Anthropology

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 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 anthropological study, this will be essential reading for students and scholars interested in theory of anthropology, media and information studies, communication studies and sociology. With a brand-new Introduction from editors Haidy Geismar and Hannah Knox, as well as an abridged version of the original Introduction by Heather Horst and Daniel Miller, in conjunction with new chapters on hacking and digitizing environments, amongst others, and fully revised chapters throughout, this will bring the field-defining overview of digital anthropology fully up to date.

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

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