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Centre for Digital Anthropology

The Centre for Digital Anthropology is a leading research hub for the understanding of digital technologies in the rich context of human society and culture.
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Researchers at the Centre for Digital Anthropology explore the diverse ways in which digital technologies are affecting human experience.

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Study

We offer opportunities to study digital anthropology at all levels, from undergraduate modules to a masters level course, courses in continuing professional development and PhDs. Our main avenue for teaching is through our MSc in Digital Anthropology, the only masters programme of its kind currently on offer in the UK.

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Research

At the UCL Centre for Digital Anthropology we bring the insights of anthropology to understand emerging digital worlds. We are committed to research which both advances anthropological understandings of human being in a digital age, and generates grounded ethnographic insights that can inform both policy and technology design.

Upcoming events and stuff  

NEW WEBSITE  - PUTTING DATA JUSTICE IN CONTEXT

This website which has just been launched can be found at  https://www.datajusticeincontext.com/ examines the anthropological contribution to what does data justice mean in different places, at different times, and for different people? An initiative in which Tone Walford has been deeply involved, It will provide information on seminars, publications and other events associated with this initiative.

THE TIKTOK ETHNOGRAPHIC COLLECTIVE :

The TikTok Ethnography Collective www.tiktokethnography.com is a collaborative research project that brings together undergraduates, postgraduates, lecturers, professors, and non-university members, to conduct research on the social media, micro- vlogging platform TikTok. This research has two main aims: 1) Explore what an ethnographic approach can offer understandings of TikTok. 2) Experiment with the anthropological and pedagogical possibilities of collaboration.

 As a collective, they run workshops, conduct interviews, engage in creative writing and drawing, and explore other ways in which we can ethnographically engage with TikTok. They are always open to new members and collaborators. If you are interested in getting involved with the work the collective is doing, please get in touch with  Elena Liber (e.liber@ucl.ac.uk), Yathukulan Yogarajah (y.yogarajah@ucl.ac.uk), Toby Austin Locke (toby.locke@ucl.ac.uk)

GAMES FOR WELFARE 1

A game/quiz created by Daniel Miller and Sheba Mohammid may be downloaded from your phones as Trini Food Quiz. The game was devised largely on the basis of ethnographic research and is designed to provide knowledge linking diet to hypertension which is a major cause of death in Trinidad and Tobago. But you may not do very well in the quiz as one of its features is that it was designed to be very local to Trinidad and Tobago. The game has been very successful in terms of downloads and comments. We hope to also assess its subsequent impact on health. Link to Google Play. Link to App Store

GAMES FOR WELFARE 2

A game called Move Quietly and Tend Things has been created by Kellynn Wee. This is a tabletop role-playing game. It invites you to explore the mysterious origins of a bittersweet utopia set in the ruins of a post climate collapse Southeast Asia. The game asks questions around community-making, more-than-human relations and culpability.

EASA NETWORK

Obviously relevant to us is a new European Network for Digital Anthropology (ENDA) which has been established by EASA. They hope to establish an email list soon.