Online crime has increased in severity and frequency over the past two decades. However,
although several scientific disciplines have commonly employed criminological theories to …

ABSTRACT I dedicate this essay to anthropologists' heightened attunement to precarity but
also to what Michel‐Rolph Trouillot, who passed away last year, called our “moral optimism.” …

Andreas Hepp takes an integrative look at one of the biggest questions in media and
communications research: how digital media is changing society. Often, such questions are …

This provocative new introduction to the field of digital sociology offers a critical overview of
interdisciplinary debates about new ways of knowing society that are emerging today at the …

Models for understanding and holding systems accountable have long rested upon ideals
and logics of transparency. Being able to see a system is sometimes equated with being …

The smartphone is often literally right in front of our nose, so you would think we would know
what it is. But do we? To find out, 11 anthropologists each spent 16 months living in …

How the World Changed Social Media is the first book in Why We Post, a book series that
investigates the findings of nine anthropologists who each spent 15 months living in …

An argument that we must read code for more than what it does—we must consider what it
means. Computer source code has become part of popular discourse. Code is read not only …

This book explores the weird and mean and in-between that characterize everyday
expression online, from absurdist photoshops to antagonistic Twitter hashtags to deceptive …

Digital Ethnography outlines an approach to doing ethnography in a contemporary world. It
invites researchers to consider how we live and research in a digital, material and sensory …