The Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Human Experience
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Inhabiting Digital Environments
This latest issue of the Journal of Visual and Media Anthropology presents four articles and five ethnographic short-film productions that are the outcome of timely and original digital ethnography research. A range of papers and films examine the important issue of influence in the social media realm, for example scientists communicating via Twitter (Ben Boteler’s essay), or Italian beauty bloggerstrying to make a living off YouTube (Arianna Marin’s paper). Further, two films by Luiza Geraldi Folegatti and Leandro Goddinho focus on contemporary forms of digital activism. They convey how HIV-positive YouTubers and Brazilian Drag Kings use social media in order to raise awareness, fight prejudices and seek to influence public debate.
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