The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography

The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography
Author: Larissa Hjorth
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1088
Release: 2017-01-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 131737777X

With the increase of digital and networked media in everyday life, researchers have increasingly turned their gaze to the symbolic and cultural elements of technologies. From studying online game communities, locative and social media to YouTube and mobile media, ethnographic approaches to digital and networked media have helped to elucidate the dynamic cultural and social dimensions of media practice. The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography provides an authoritative, up-to-date, intellectually broad, and conceptually cutting-edge guide to this emergent and diverse area. Features include: a comprehensive history of computers and digitization in anthropology; exploration of various ethnographic methods in the context of digital tools and network relations; consideration of social networking and communication technologies on a local and global scale; in-depth analyses of different interfaces in ethnography, from mobile technologies to digital archives.

Internet of Things in Biomedical Engineering

Internet of Things in Biomedical Engineering
Author: Valentina Emilia Balas
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2019-06-14
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0128173572

Internet of Things in Biomedical Engineering presents the most current research in Internet of Things (IoT) applications for clinical patient monitoring and treatment. The book takes a systems-level approach for both human-factors and the technical aspects of networking, databases and privacy. Sections delve into the latest advances and cutting-edge technologies, starting with an overview of the Internet of Things and biomedical engineering, as well as a focus on 'daily life.' Contributors from various experts then discuss 'computer assisted anthropology,' CLOUDFALL, and image guided surgery, as well as bio-informatics and data mining. This comprehensive coverage of the industry and technology is a perfect resource for students and researchers interested in the topic. - Presents recent advances in IoT for biomedical engineering, covering biometrics, bioinformatics, artificial intelligence, computer vision and various network applications - Discusses big data and data mining in healthcare and other IoT based biomedical data analysis - Includes discussions on a variety of IoT applications and medical information systems - Includes case studies and applications, as well as examples on how to automate data analysis with Perl R in IoT

Applications in Computing for Social Anthropologists

Applications in Computing for Social Anthropologists
Author: Michael Fischer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2003-12-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 113497843X

As increasing numbers of social anthropologists use a computer for wordprocessing, interest in other applications inevitably follows, Computer Applications in Social Anthropology covers research activities shared by all social anthropologists and introduces new methods for organizing and interpreting data. Lucidly written, and sympathetic to the particular needs of social anthropologists, it will be of immense value to researchers and professionals in anthropology, development studies and sociology

Anthropology and Public Health

Anthropology and Public Health
Author: Robert A. Hahn
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 753
Release: 2009
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0195374649

Anthropologists also work as evaluators, examining the activities of public health institutions and the successes and failures of public health programs.

Doing Anthropology in Consumer Research

Doing Anthropology in Consumer Research
Author: Patricia L Sunderland
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2016-06-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1315430169

An essential new guide to the theory and practice of conducting ethnographic research in consumer environments, drawing on decades of the authors’ own research—from coffee in Bangkok and boredom in New Zealand to computing in the United States—using methodologies from focus groups and rapid appraisal to semiotics and visual ethnography.

Anthropological Intelligence

Anthropological Intelligence
Author: David H. Price
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2008-06-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780822342373

DIVCultural history of anthropologists' involvement with U.S. intelligence agencies--as spies and informants--during World War II./div

Anthropological Research

Anthropological Research
Author: Pertti J. Pelto
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1978-02-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780521292283

A comprehensive text on research methods in social and cultural anthropology, covering tools, counting and sampling, fieldwork and research design. Originally published by Harper & Row, 1970.