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Friday, June 20, 2014

Poor Data, Rich Data, Big Data, Chief

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Over the past 2 years, Big Data has worked its way into public consciousness, courtesy of widespread news exposure and a  series of popula...
Saturday, May 10, 2014

Latent City

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A couple of decades ago, social network analysis was a fairly recondite branch of sociology and anthropology applying mathematical matri...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

Anthropology, Fieldwork and the Third Man

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I watched Carol Reed’s “ The Third Man ” (1949) again last week, and I was again reminded what a perfect parable the film is for the ethno...
Saturday, March 22, 2014

Mind the Gap—Technology and the Multiplication of Space/Time

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Sitting on my desk is a book that I page through when I have a moment: Quantum City .  It’s not something I’m going to assign in classes—i...
Tuesday, February 25, 2014

You Ruined My Game

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(previously published in Anthropology News ) As the brief, terrifying passion for  MOOCs  slowly dissipates, your university administrat...
Saturday, February 15, 2014

the sceptical futuryst: Participatory cli-fi: the Making of FutureCoast

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An interesting, collaborative project . . . the sceptical futuryst: Participatory cli-fi: the Making of FutureCoast
Thursday, January 23, 2014

Ghost Anthropologies and Other Spectral Possibilities

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[Cross-posted from my column on Anthropology News ] As I write this, magazines, newspapers and blog sites around the world proffer their...