
The Anthropology of Social Media
We often hear broad claims about the impact of Facebook and Twitter on our lives—but that impact can be radically different depending on what sort of community you live in
Daniel Miller is professor of anthropology at University College London. He is author/editor of thirty nine books., and has just begun a five-year ERC funded research study called ASSA--the Anthropology of Smartphones, Smart Aging and mHealth--which will comprise ten simulteneous fifteen-month ethnographies from around the world.
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