Lecturer, Universidad Iberoamericana, Puebla.
Contributor, Platypus, The CASTAC Blog
About Adriana
Digital anthropologist, she has researched the production and consumption processes of Internet memes, and her doctoral thesis addressed everyday forms of resistance undertaken by a digital motherhood tribe. She holds a PhD in Anthropological Sciences from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana and is an adjunct lecturer at Universidad Iberoamericana and Tec de Monterrey.
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Digital Anthropology of the Senses: Connecting Technology and Culture Through the Sensory World
With the ubiquity of the Internet and the overwhelming number of screens that mediate our daily practices, the predominance of the image in daily life is indisputable. The image’s omnipresence has guided countless academic works focused on the visual. For example, visual studies and specialties such as visual anthropology highlight the ethnographic value of images, which, analog or digital alike, have become powerful vehicles for the construction of knowledge (Zirión, 2015; Gómez Cruz, 2012). However, given the predominance of the visual, we have neglected research regarding other senses; this gap widens even more if we consider its intersection with digital studies. (more…) (read more...)