Lisa Jenny Krieg

Anthropology with algorithms?

Medicine Anthropology Theory September 28, 2017 Lisa Jenny Krieg, Moritz Berning, Anita Hardon 26 citations

Based on a study of more than twenty thousand reports on drug experiences from the online drug education portal Erowid, this article argues that the integration of ethnographic methods with computational methods and digital data analysis, including so-called big data, is not only possible but highly rewarding. The analysis of ‘natively’ digital data from sites like Facebook, message boards, and...