Digital Anthropology: Check.

I was impressed to notice that University College London is going to begin offering an “MA in ‘Digital Anthropology’”:http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/digital-anthropology/about.htm starting in fall 2009. They are even “hiring”:http://careercenter.aaanet.org/jobdetail.cfm?job=3084996 if you’d like to throw your hat in the ring. Just a quick glance at their core readings — Chris Kelty, Tom Boellstorf, Mimi Ito, The Daniel Miller Assemblage, etc — makes the course look interesting to me, and relatively low on the hand-waveyness scale. Sounds like an interesting program.

Alex Golub is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He studies mining and petroleum development in Papua New Guinea, as well as American culture in to the online game World of Warcraft. You can contact him at rex@savageminds.org