Recent provocations about the role of “big data” in human communication research and technology studies deserve an outline of the value of anthropology, as a particular kind of “big data”.
Podcast, Craig Watkins: “Exploring the Digital Practices of Black and Latino Youth”
Craig Watkins studies young people’s social and digital media behaviors. He teaches at the University of Texas, Austin.
Podcast: David Kelley, “The Color of Seawater Through a Picture Window”
David Kelley primarily works with digital video installation and photography, with recent projects involving performance and sculpture.
Podcast: T.L. Taylor, “Professional Play and the E-sports Industry”
Based on extensive qualitative research, T.L. Taylor’s talk explores the nature of professional computer game play.
Video: Thesis Presentations 2010. Hillary Kolos: “Not in it just to win it: Inclusive gaming in an MIT dorm”
Hillary Kolos describes her ethnographic study of gamers who live together in a dorm at MIT.
Podcast: Celia Pearce, “Identity-as-Place: Fictive Ethnicities in Online Games & Virtual Worlds”
Celia Pearce, exploring the connection of identity to virtual place and the “Uru Diaspora,” a game community from the defunct MMOG “Uru: Ages Beyond Myst”.
Disco Jalebi: An Ethnographic Exploration of Gay Bombay
I explore what being gay means to the members of Gay Bombay and how they negotiate locality and globalization, their sense of identity as well as a feeling of community within its online/offline world.
