Daniel Miller, anthropologist teaching material culture, digital anthropology and stuff.
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Jun 8
UCL Press have just posted on YouTube an interview with me as part of a series called A Cup Of Tea, discussing various aspects of my work, including the impact of AI. You can see it at:-
uclpress.co.uk/podcast/human…
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Mar 31
have a new publication with Craig Ryder called The Augmented Interview. It's a methodology paper that shows how and why an interview based around an object or image can be far more productive than a purely language-based interview
shorturl.at/9tOoS
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Mar 30
One thing I feel is missing in the obituaries for Jürgen Habermas is the influence of his earlier work, Knowledge and Human Interests. For people such as myself, this was a key component in the critique of positivism at that time.
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Mar 11
This afternoon at 3.00 I'm giving a lecture at SOAS on the impact of digital technologies on wellbeing and mental health.
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Feb 4
Hard not to get mesmerised by these latest developments in Moltbot, Clawdbot and OpenClaw - basically social media platforms where chatbots talk to each other. Apparently, chatbots find anthropologists fascinating.
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Jan 28
Understanding China also means excavating beneath terms such as China and the Chinese. The case studies in this book highlight the diversity within this vast region: from IT workers to mushroom pickers, from period tracking apps to media executives.
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Jan 27
New publication:
Understanding China Through Digital Anthropology, Edited with Wang Xinyuan
A free download from UCL Press.
In the conclusion, we explain the profound differences in attitudes to the digital between China and the West.
uclpress.co.uk/book/understa…
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2 Dec 2025
Listening to The Velvet Sundown and Xania Monet. These AI-generated songs are impressive. But Lily Allen they ain't.
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4 Nov 2025
Just received the Korean translation of my book The Good Enough Life - love the cover
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21 Oct 2025
Congratulations to my student Zheng Ken on passing her PhD examination. Her extensive ethnography within one of the key Chinese IT companies produced important revelations of what really happens in the creation of an algorithm. Very different from what we might imagine.
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12 Sep 2025
New Publication.
The Uses of Digital Anthropology in Podjed. D. and Montero, C. Why The World Needs Anthropologists.
routledge.com/Why-the-World-…
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7 Sep 2025
My work email just told me it is full. When I checked, there were only 221,000 emails there.
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4 Sep 2025
New paper in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute on the struggles of migrant care workers in elderly care in China. By Xinyuan Wang, currently working with me on a project concerned with care, surveillance and fairness in London and Shanghai.
rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…
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2 Sep 2025
Enjoyed End of the Road Festival for Self-Esteem, Hayden Pedigo, Broadside Hacks playing the Incredible String Band, Vieux Farka Toure, Roje, Ustaad Noor Bakhsh and Muireann Bradley (missed Anna Erhad).
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5 Aug 2025
The title of the Chinese version of the book I am editing with Wang Xinyuan on digital anthropology in China, is now `Smoke and Fire in the Everyday World 2:0.' I imagine it sounds even better in Chinese.
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28 Jul 2025
Watched Euros in a field with thousands and then Elbow . One day a year like that might well see me right.
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27 Jul 2025
Latitude - going back to Kaiser Chiefs, Scouting for Girls and Sting. Discovered Chloe Qisha and Ralph Taylor.
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24 Jul 2025
Why on earth are governments still delaying the full recognition of a Palestinian state, specifically including Gaza? Now is surely the exact time when this must be proclaimed and defended.
If Jews can have a state, then so must Palestinians and vice versa.
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23 Jul 2025
Sad to report the death of my colleague Michael Rowlands. Above all else, Mike was an intellectual. The embodiment of centuries during which universities were the places where humanity might achieve a deeper and broader understanding of itself and the world in which we live.
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9 Jul 2025
Delighted to announce The Anthropology of Retirement. Ed with Pauline Garvey
With growing life expectancy, retirement is becoming equal to our entire working lives. It is not just an event but decades of change. In this book we consider the consequences.
berghahnbooks.com/title/Mill…
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