When an ethnographer met Edward Snowden
When an ethnographer met Edward Snowden
- October 18, 2013
- Research by Tom Boellstorff, anthropology professor, is featured by Freedom to Tinker October 18, 2013
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From Freedom to Tinker:
If you talk about ‘metadata’, ‘big data’ and ‘Big Brother’ just as easily as you
order a pizza, ethnography and anthropology are probably not your first points of
reference. But the outcome of a recent encounter of ethnographer Tom Boellstorff and
Edward Snowden (not IRL but IRP), is that tech policy wonks and researchers should
be careful with their day to day vocabulary, as concepts carry politics of control
and power. In ‘Making big data, in theory’, ethnographer and anthropologist Tom Boellstorff
discusses Edward Snowden’s revelations IRP (In Research Paper). The paper, published
on 7 October, is a refreshing 12 page take on the construction of some very dominant
concepts in tech policy and research today.
For the full story, please visit https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/axel/when-an-ethnographer-met-edward-....
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