Lachlan Summers

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An Unofficial Style Guide

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An Unofficial Style Guide

The Society for Cultural Anthropology’s Social Media Team (SMT) relies heavily on oral history, some institutional memory, and low turnover rates to imagine and... More

Handling It: Acting Like a Team, Thinking Like a Society

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Handling It: Acting Like a Team, Thinking Like a Society

Most members of the Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA)’s Social Media Team (SMT) have been in their position for two to four years, but the SMT has existed... More

Being @CulAnth: Social Media as Academic Practice

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Being @CulAnth: Social Media as Academic Practice

What does doing academia in general and anthropology in particular look like on social media? Each piece in this series works to answer this question by taking ... More

Introduction

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Introduction

With some 48,400 thousand followers, the Society for Cultural Anthropology’s (SCA) Twitter account @CulAnth is the world's largest anthropology social media acc... More

Handling Harassment, Negotiating Care

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Handling Harassment, Negotiating Care

While it can be a generative and privileged position to handle an account and content that shapes the discursive spaces of #AnthroTwitter and #AcademicTwitter, ... More

Citational Politics: On Recognition, Circulation, and Response

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Citational Politics: On Recognition, Circulation, and Response

In the political economy of the production and dissemination of knowledge, open access (OA) journals offer the possibility to rethink collective engagement with... More

Invisible Labor

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Invisible Labor

SMT TO DO LIST: Enter details for 16 pieces in newly published series into The SpreadsheetIncluding Twitter handles of authors—either from Managing Editor or in... More

Live-Tweeting as Academic Practice

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Live-Tweeting as Academic Practice

Live-tweeting an academic panel or talk may vary—it can involve brevity or depth, quoting or paraphrasing, summary or commentary, formality or fun—but generally... More

A Sudden Shock of Care: An Interview with Aidan Seale-Feldman

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A Sudden Shock of Care: An Interview with Aidan Seale-Feldman

Lachlan Summers: The research for this article emerged in a shocking way—the Nepal earthquakes of 2015—rather than being part of your original research design. ... More

Our Amphibians, Ourselves: An Interview with Emily Wanderer

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Our Amphibians, Ourselves: An Interview with Emily Wanderer

Ashley Elizabeth Drake and Lachlan Summers: Axolotls are, as you note, exceptionally charismatic creatures that have captured the attention of restoration ecolo... More