Digital anthropology: attitudes and principles

  • Julia J. Gafarova Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

Abstract

The paper considers the attitudes and principles of a new field of anthropological knowledge – digital anthropology. Digital anthropology is focused on seeing the spread of global information and communication technologies in a wide variety of social and cultural fields not as a purely technological, socially neutral act, but as a change in the ways of communication around the world. Digital anthropology preserves the continuity of attitudes and principles of cultural analysis, arguing that digitalization has not made a person less human, and culture has not deprived it of its essence.

Author Biography

Julia J. Gafarova, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

PhD (philosophy), docent; associate professor at the department of social communication, faculty of philosophy and social sciences

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Published
2022-08-01
Keywords: digital anthropology, digital culture, social and cultural anthropology, interpretive anthropology, universalism, holism, adaptation, integration, cultural relativism
Supporting Agencies The study was conducted with the financial support of the Belarusian Republican Foundation for Fundamental Research in the framework of the scientific project «Mobile technologies in the digital transformation of the everyday life in the Republic of Belarus» (grant No. Г20-056).
How to Cite
Gafarova, J. J. (2022). Digital anthropology: attitudes and principles. Human in the Socio-Cultural Dimension, 2, 10-14. Retrieved from https://journals.bsu.by/index.php/pitscd/article/view/4828
Issue
No 2 (2022): Human in the Socio-Cultural Dimension
Section
Socio-Cultural Communications