Resume

Sydney Yeager INSIGHT · STRATEGY · INNOVATION Innovation powered by empathic insights and data-driven decision-making.  As a digital anthropologist, I synergize qualitative and quantitative research to deliver insights into human experience that shape problem-solving and tech-led futures. I am an expert at sense-making and contextualizing diverse datasets into human-centered solutions. WORK EXPERIENCE AcreTrader, Fayetteville, ARContinue reading “Resume”

The Anthropologist’s Disclaimer

Many people I meet, even people I talk to on a regular basis, do not have background knowledge of anthropology, and I think that is fairly typical. Anthropology isn’t taught in the American public school system and most people have only had a limited introduction to one of Anthropology’s subfields.   Archeology or Forensic Anthropology areContinue reading “The Anthropologist’s Disclaimer”

What Anthropologists Do

The strength of anthropology is that we are always learning, gathering data isn’t something we do in a lab or even something we can easily shut off. We learn through immersion, living in the same cultural context as the people we are studying. We call it participant-observation occasionally even deep hanging out in an attempt to overContinue reading “What Anthropologists Do”

Mobile Health in Context

Mobile Health in Context: How Information is Woven Into Our Lives   @SusannahFox @PewResearch Susannah Fox from Pew Review Research put together an excellent presentation of the latest health and digital technology related statistics.  The slides are concise, accessible, and thought provoking.  Can we put cell phones to use improve health and health information seekingContinue reading “Mobile Health in Context”

DANG Panel Accepted

The BRIDGING DIGITAL AND PHYSICAL PUBLICS: DIGITAL Anthropologists’ CURRENT ENGAGEMENTS WITH 21st CENTURY PUBLICS panel has been accepted!!  It is being reviewed by the Society of Visual Anthropology. The panel with include the following papers: Anastasiya Travina (Texas State University-San Marcos)                    500,000 Tweets and Posts During TheContinue reading “DANG Panel Accepted”

Call for Papers: Digital Anthropologists’ Current Engagements with 21st Century Publics

Check out the Digital Anthropology Call for Papers: Call for Papers: Digital Anthropologists’ Current Engagements with 21st Century Publics.    

Performance Enhancing Drugs – College Edition

“Passing with Pills: Redefining Performance in the Pharmaceuticalized University”  is a very thoughtful and thought provoking ethnographic look in the mirror.  Tazin Karim of Michigan State University did an excellent job applying a critical, medical anthropological lens to academia and the pressures of the rite of passage in America referred to as college.   When discussing the exportation/globalization ofContinue reading “Performance Enhancing Drugs – College Edition”