[Air-L] Trending Ethnography

[Tom Boellstorff]

In regard to the recent coverage about predictions of Facebook’s future demise—to me the important untold story here is the “mission creep” where predicting the future has become such valued analytical goal. I just wrote something for the wonderful folks at Culture Digitally about this - take a look!

http://culturedigitally.org/2014/01/trending-ethnography-notes-on-import-prediction-and-digital-culture/

All the best, Tom Boellstorff