All Tomorrow's Cultures

The Spatial Practice of Online Social Networks What are the relationships between the city and the social media used in the city?  I ass...

My colleague, Matthew Durington, and I have just finished our final iteration of a 4-year collaborative project,  Anthropology By the Wire...

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

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

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...

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...

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