Digital Anthropology (grad) 2003 MIT
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The Hall of Heroes, an idea of digital-signal displays visible only to people wearing certain receptive glasses. (Image by Sandy Pentland.)
Course Highlights
This class contains excellent lecture notes and project proposals, highlighting possible future technologies in digital artifacts.
Course Description
Digital Anthropology is a Spring 2003 applied social science and media
arts seminar, surveying the blossoming arena of digital-artifact
enabled experimental sociology/anthropology. We will emphasize on both
(a) Technology Testbeds – systematically deploying research lab
prototypes and corporate pre-production products in a sample human
organizational population and carefully observing the social
consequences, and (b) Sociometrics – using digital artifacts to better
observe and measure the complex social reality of interesting human
systems.
Course Lecture Notes
Weekly lectures are a combination of class
discussion and brainstorming, and lectures by visiting guests, which
are presented here. Each work is courtesy of the individuals named,
and used with permission.
Course Resources
Course Lecture Notes
Weekly lectures are a combination of class
discussion and brainstorming, and lectures by visiting guests, which
are presented here. Each work is courtesy of the individuals named,
and used with permission.| LEC # | TOPICS |
|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction and Overview (PDF - 1.4 MB) |
| 2 | Reality Mining - Nathan Eagle and Alex Pentland (PDF) |
| 3 | Sociometer Shortcuts- Tanzeem Choudhury and Alex Pentland (PDF) |
| 4 | Technology Testbeds at MIT (PDF) |
Course Projects
This section includes an introduction to the project in the class, and some proposals for class projects.| LEC # | TOPICS |
|---|---|
| 2 | Experiment Proposals (PDF) |
| 4 | Project Proposals (PDF) |
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