Sipping my morning coffee in the corrosive speech of Bernard Avle, the radio host of Accra’s Citi FM Breakfast Show – a deliciously satirical commentary on salient socio-economic issues in Ghana –, I find my daily dose of morning chuckling interrupted by the conversational attempts of a friendly French tourist (hereafterContinue Reading
Agbogbloshie: the world’s largest e-waste dump – in pictures | Environment | theguardian.com. Discarders of electronic goods expect them to be recycled properly. But almost all such devices contain toxic chemicals which, even if they are recyclable, make it expensive to do so. As a result, illegal dumpingContinue Reading
Elad Ben Elul, UCL Digital Anthropology and the Album People, Tel Aviv (An earlier version of this article was published in Interactions.) Applied anthropology is becoming increasingly visible and the rise of digital anthropology means cultural research is employed for the development and marketing of technology. However, applied anthropology can alsoContinue Reading
Elad Ben Elul, Department of Anthropology, UCL Photos from Ghanaian family reunions are distributed through Facebook. The elders are often recorded telling family tales. Recent debates around the motivations for taking digital photos ask whether people document for memory or as tools for communication (Dijck 2008:58). However, this debateContinue Reading