TY - JOUR
AU1 - DuBARTELL, DEBORAH
AB -  Digital Anthropology examines spatial and social parameters of digital technology as people meet, socialize, and interact while simultaneously constructing and projecting a digital self‐identity. The authors of the book's 14 chapters share major themes: emphasis on the self and its boundaries in the digital world, social change through technological innovation, the development of indigenized digital forms, social interaction and isolation, and the demarcation between private and public spheres. The ethnographic studies address social status, intimacy, openness, power, sociality, accountability, and knowledge. Part 1 comprises only the editors’ chapter, “The Digital and the Human: A Prospectus for Digital Anthropology.” They propose six principles as the foundation of digital anthropology: the dialectical nature of culture, the nonmediating influence of the digital on humanity, a commitment to holism, a reassertion of cultural relativism, the essential ambiguity of digital culture, and the materiality of digital worlds. These principles inform the work of the book's contributors, whom propose and support an essential, dialectic, and binary definition of digital as they assess the rapid normative expansion of digital genres, social ambivalence, and exploitation among other themes. Part 2 addresses the contributions of ethnographic analysis. In “Rethinking Digital Anthropology,” Tom Boellstorff notes the indexical relationship 
TI - Digital Anthropology . Heather A. Horst and Daniel Miller , eds. London : Berg , 2012 . 316 pp.
JF - American Ethnologist
DO - 10.1111/amet.12111_4
DA - 2014-11-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/digital-anthropology-heather-a-horst-and-daniel-miller-eds-london-berg-9OUn8v0do9
SP - 774
EP - 775
VL - 41
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -