This review surveys and divides the ethnographic corpus on digital media into three broad
but overlapping categories: the cultural politics of digital media, the vernacular cultures of …

A fascinating examination of technological utopianism and its complicated consequences. In
The Charisma Machine, Morgan Ames chronicles the life and legacy of the One Laptop per …

From the rise of cyberbullying and hactivism to the issues surrounding digital privacy rights
and freedom of speech, the Internet is changing the ways in which we govern and are …

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 article foregrounds the ways in which members of the Quantified Self ascribe value and
meaning to the data they generate in self-tracking practices. We argue that the widespread …

Crowdsourcing systems do more than get information work done. This paper argues that
microwork systems produce the difference between “innovative” laborers and “menial” …

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 …

Enabled by ICTs and digital fabrication tools such as 3D printing, and facilitated by shared
workspaces such as makerspaces and FabLabs, digital innovation and fabrication networks …

This paper explores activism enacted through Silk Road, a now defunct cryptomarket where
illicit drugs were sold in the dark web. Drawing on a digital ethnography of Silk Road, we …

When social media technologies, or" Web 2.0," emerged, scholars and technologists hailed
them as a new era of participatory, egalitarian culture. This dissertation examines three …