{"id":359,"date":"2011-09-01T08:45:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T06:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/?p=359"},"modified":"2016-12-07T10:51:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T09:51:53","slug":"conference-paper-from-cyber-to-digital-anthropology-to-an-anthropology-of-the-contemporary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/conference-paper-from-cyber-to-digital-anthropology-to-an-anthropology-of-the-contemporary\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper: From Cyber to Digital Anthropology to an Anthropology of the Contemporary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Philipp Budka&#8217;s Paper at the DGV (German Anthropological Association) conference in Vienna, 14-17 September 2011, Workshop &#8220;Cyberculture&#8221; organized by <a href=\"http:\/\/xirdalium.net\/\">Alexander Knorr<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><br \/>\nThis paper is first taking a look back on the \u201canthropology of cyberculture\u201d, formulated as anthropological research area, concept and issue by 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\u2019s transforming driving forces. Pushed by powerful digital media technologies, such as internet applications and services, anthropology labelled as \u201cdigital anthropology\u201d is currently tempted to forget about cyberanthropology\u2019s holistic effort of understanding the sociocultural construction and interpretation of bio and communication technologies. What is the legacy of the anthropology of cyberculture when dealing with new digital practices? Is it actually necessary to construct branches of anthropology that deal with contemporary sociocultural developments? Or should we just open the discipline to an \u201canthropology of the contemporary\u201d, as Rabinow and Marcus (2008) propose?<\/p>\n<p><strong>References<\/strong><br \/>\nEscobar, Arturo. 1994. Welcome to Cyberia. Notes on the anthropology of cyberculture. In Current Anthropology, 35\/3: 211-231.<br \/>\nRabinow, Paul, Marcus, George E. (with Faubion, James D., Rees, Tobias) 2008. Designs for an anthropology of the contemporary. Durham: Duke University Press.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/budka_dgv_cyberculture_paper3.pdf\">Text (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tagung2011.dgv-net.de\/\">http:\/\/www.tagung2011.dgv-net.de\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tagung2011.dgv-net.de\/workshops.html\">http:\/\/www.tagung2011.dgvnet.de\/workshops.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.univie.ac.at\/ksa\/\">http:\/\/www.univie.ac.at\/ksa\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philipp Budka&#8217;s Paper at the DGV (German Anthropological Association) conference in Vienna, 14-17 September 2011, Workshop &#8220;Cyberculture&#8221; organized by Alexander Knorr Abstract This paper is first taking a look back on the \u201canthropology of cyberculture\u201d, formulated as anthropological research area, concept and issue by Escobar in 1994. Inspired by science and technology studies, he painted&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/conference-paper-from-cyber-to-digital-anthropology-to-an-anthropology-of-the-contemporary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Paper: From Cyber to Digital Anthropology to an Anthropology of the Contemporary<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,54,99,74,29],"tags":[15,20,186,155,19],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference","category-cyberanthropology","category-digital-anthropology","category-methodology","category-anthropology","tag-conference","tag-cyberanthropology","tag-digital-anthropology","tag-icts","tag-sociocultural-anthropology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}