“Culture” in the Science Fictional Universe of “Big Data”

 

 

 

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Digital Anthropology becomes a science

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Using new online data sources and massive scale intelligence on social activities, this article argues that anthropology is being reinvented as a hard science.

Digital Anthropology becomes a Science – broadstuff.

Applied anthropology careers in business

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How can an anthropology degree be used in business? Check out these links.

Careers in Anthropology.

Christopher Tennant: Ethnography of the very rich

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The laugh of luxury – The Boston Globe.

This is hilarious. This guy went to the best schools and grew up around the rich and now has written a funny ethnography of what it is like to be one of the rich. Turns out they are even more neurotic, stressed, and unkempt than the rest of us!