Over at the UCL Social Networking Sites and Social Sciences Project, Danny Miller writes about his research at a London hospice where he has been exploring the resonance of new media at the end of life: Alongside my ethnographic research in The Glades I have now been working for over a yearContinue Reading
By Cláudia Pereira and Germano Penalva Two years ago Facebook, already a fever around the world, became a fever in Brazil, surpassing the Orkut. Until 2010 it was the most famous social network. It has broken social classes, languages and ages barriers. It has been undergoing processes adaptation and acceptance and useContinue Reading
Empson, Rebecca, 2011. Harnessing Fortune: Personhood, Memory and Place in Mongolia. Oxford University Press. Daniel Miller, UCL One of the issues in teaching material culture studies under the auspices of an anthropology department is explaining what is, at least in my case, a very conservative attitude to ethnography. I haveContinue Reading