Digital Anthropology - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 0857852906 ISBN 13 : 9780857852908

Editeur : Berg Publishers, 2012

Synopsis

Digital Anthropology This book brings together key anthropologists of digital culture to explore what it is to be human in the digital world. Using a range of case studies from Google Earth, to Second Life, to Facebook this is essential reading for students of anthropology, media studies, cultural studies and sociology. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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 impetus from the extraordinary rise of the digital. This book brings together several key anthropologists working with digital culture to demonstrate just how productive an anthropological approach to the digital has already become.

Through a range of case studies from Facebook to Second Life to Google Earth, Digital Anthropology explores how human and digital can be defined in relation to one another, from avatars and disability; cultural differences in how we use social networking sites or practise religion; the practical consequences of the digital for politics, museums, design, space and development to new online world and gaming communities. The book also explores the moral universe of the digital, from new anxieties to open-source ideals. Digital Anthropology reveals how only the intense scrutiny of ethnography can overturn assumptions about the impact of digital culture and reveal its profound consequences for everyday life.

Combining the clarity of a textbook with an engaging style which conveys a passion for these new frontiers of enquiry, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of anthropology, media studies, communication studies, cultural studies and sociology.

Revue de presse :

'Researchers and teachers alike have long been waiting for this invaluable guide to the tricky terrain of digital anthropology. Demonstrating what anthropology brings to the study of the digital and vice versa, Horst and Miller's book provides a firm launching-off point for new investigations of the remediations, remodulations, and reconfigurations associated with digital media and technology.' --Paul Dourish, Professor of Informatics, University of California, Irvine

'This remarkable volume provides a provocative survey of an emergent territory we are all coming to inhabit. Broad in coverage yet acutely attentive to the particulars, offering multiple perspectives yet elegantly integrative, and epistemologically bracing while deeply anthropological, this is a work of lasting value for experts and non-experts alike.' --Don Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz

'Digital Anthropology is a beautifully curated book that reveals the importance of anthropological insight for understanding different aspects of networked society, from the spectacular to the mundane. In this formative book, Horst and Miller call attention to the ways in which digital technologies make visible our humanity.' --Danah Boyd, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Berg Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0857852906
• ISBN 13: 9780857852908
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 328