From Cyber to Digital Anthropology to an Anthropology of the Contemporary?
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This paper is first taking a brief look back on the “anthropology of cyberculture”, formulated as anthropological research area, concept and issue by Arturo Escobar in 1994. Inspired by science and technology studies, he painted a very vivid picture how anthropology and ethnography could contribute to the understanding of new bio and communication technologies as society's transforming driving forces. Pushed by powerful digital media technologies, such as internet applications and services, a “digital anthropology” recently developed, particularly under the influence of material culture theory. What is the legacy of the anthropology of cyberculture when dealing with new digital practices? And is it actually necessary to construct branches of anthropology that deal with contemporary sociocultural developments? Or should we just open the discipline to an “anthropology of the contemporary”, as Rabinow and Marcus (2008) propose.
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