Digital Anthropology; Contents; Notes on Contributors; PART I. INTRODUCTION; 1. The Digital and the Human: A Prospectus for Digital Anthropology; PART II. POSITIONING DIGITAL ANTHROPOLOGY; 2. Rethinking Digital Anthropology; 3. New Media Technologies in Everyday Life; 4. Geomedia: The Reassertion of Space within Digital Culture; PART III. SOCIALIZING DIGITAL ANTHROPOLOGY; 5. Disability in the Digital Age; 6. Approaches to Personal Communication; 7. Social Networking Sites; PART IV. POLITICIZING DIGITAL ANTHROPOLOGY; 8. Digital Politics and Political Engagement
9. Free Software and the Politics of Sharing10. Diverse Digital Worlds; 11. Digital Engagement: Voice and Participation in Development; PART V. DESIGNING DIGITAL ANTHROPOLOGY; 12. Design Anthropology: Working on, with and for Digital Technologies; 13. Museum + Digital =?; 14. Digital Gaming, Game Design and Its Precursors; Index
Summary
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
