Digital technologies are a central force animating recent multimodal explorations in anthropology. Although promises of novel modes of expression based on the digital abound – and I would intimate that they are still to be fulfilled – these technologies have profound effects on anthropological practice beyond the domain of representation. This article hints at such wider transformations by reviewing three ethnographic projects that share a common trait: their fieldwork is supported and carried out through digital infrastructures that have broad effects on the activities of analysis, representation, and conceptualisation.
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