What Does a Digital Anthropologist Do?

It’s a question I’m often asked. Basically, I am a cultural anthropologist and I apply my education and experience to the digital world. I work at the intersection of culture and technology. That said, let’s clarify two things here.

Culture: Is not just music, art and literature. It includes much, much more. Culture in fact, is the methodology Homo Sapiens chose to survive many thousands of years ago. It includes aesthetics (arts, architecture, design), kinship systems (family, community), beliefs (religion), systems of reciprocity (economics), social structure and so on. It is the knowledge we use to live everyday.

Anthropology: It is definitely NOT about ancient societies and old bones. In part it is, but there are economic anthropologists, design anthropologists and more. Including digital anthropologists. Anthropology is the study of what it means to be human, in the past, now and the future.

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