Recently, I enrolled in two multi-day training workshops in the United Kingdom with the pretense of gathering ethnographic data about emergent cultures of practice surrounding new technologies. T...
https://savageminds.org/2017/07/03/hacker-and-drone-training-as-ethnographic-fieldwork/
By Kathryn Killackey (Killackey Illustration and Design) This post is part of this month’s analog/digital series and the second post discussing my work as an archaeological illustrator in rel...
https://savageminds.org/2016/01/27/analogue-to-digital-and-back-again-part-ii/
Post by Laia Pujol-Tost: Archaeology is mostly about materiality. Its epistemological foundation is based on the relationship between humans and the material culture. Some of this objects, will ...
https://savageminds.org/2016/01/19/mixed-exhibits-the-best-of-both-worlds/
It was hot, but that was not unusual. We woke up at the first call to prayer to be on site at sunrise. I would trudge through the dimly-lit streets of the village, up to the ancient tell, and sit...
https://savageminds.org/2016/01/15/tempest-in-a-digital-teapot/
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Colleen Morgan. Post by Laia Pujol-Tost. Archaeology has a long tradition of using visual representations to depict the past. For most of its history, images w...
https://savageminds.org/2016/01/11/pixel-vs-pigment-the-goal-of-virtual-reality-in-archaeology/
This is the first in a series of posts, coordinated with Colleen Morgan, on the relations between analog and digital cultures. Over the next month, through the contributions of a variety of arch...
https://savageminds.org/2016/01/08/mobile-apps-material-world/
Increasingly, our lives are mediated … Continue reading The Privacy Paradox: IRBs in an Era of NSA Mass Surveillance →
https://savageminds.org/2015/10/21/the-privacy-paradox-irbs-in-an-era-of-nsa-mass-surveillance/
As c.10,000 anthropologists descend upon Washington, D.C. this week for the annual American Anthropological Association conference, my colleague Jonathan Marion (University of Arkansas) and I, al...
https://savageminds.org/2014/12/04/ethics-visual-media-and-the-digital/
For the past two weeks, Colleen Morgan and I have been outlining the background to an actual “media archaeology” project wherein we extend the intellectual and methodological toolkit of archa...
https://savageminds.org/2014/09/22/media-archaeology-drive-project/
On Friday my colleague, Dr Colleen Morgan, and I will be co-delivering a paper at the University of Bradford’s Archaeologies of Media and Film conference in Bradford, UK. For anyone not fami...
The internet is translative boundary object for political thought, situated between four liberal ideologies about freedom and the state, corporation, individual, and the public. The internet is t...
In 2006, according to Time Magazine, the theory of technoindividualism “took a serious beating.” In electing You to the position of the Person of the Year, Time prophesized the fourth discour...
https://savageminds.org/2013/01/21/who-built-the-internet-we-did-part-5/
Thus far Crovitz’s and Manjoo’s positions are located within modernist historiographical and liberal conceptions over the battles of freedom, with network technology as a proxy battlefield, a...
https://savageminds.org/2013/01/18/who-built-the-internet-studly-genius-individuals-part-4/
Despite Crovitz’s best wishes, Taylor’s Xerox PARC Ethernet didn’t become the internet as Slate’s Farhad Manjoo and Time’s Harry McCracken explain. Two days later, Manjoo rebutted Crovi...
https://savageminds.org/2013/01/15/who-built-the-internet-the-state-part-3/
Obama may have gaffed, neoliberal assistant editors at Fox News and the Republican National Committee, exploitatively edited, repurposed, and exaggerated the speech, but it was Wall Street Journa...
https://savageminds.org/2013/01/13/who-built-the-internet-corporations-part-2/