Episode Synopsis "Anders Kristian Munk @ Why the World Needs Anthropologists: The Power of Isolation"

Why the World Needs Anthropologists: The Power of Isolation Anders Kristian Munk: is a Scientific Director of MASSHINE and Associate Professor at TANTlab. Anders Kristian Munk is associate professor and director of the TANTLab at the University of Aalborg in Copenhagen. He holds an M.A. in European ethnology from the University of Copenhagen, a Ph.D. in geography from the University of Oxford and has spent the past decade developing digital methods for controversy mapping at the Danish Technical University, the ScinecesPo médialab, and, since 2015, at the TANTLab. His research interests include knowledge controversies and consequences of online media for democracy and public debate. Anders is the author of a Danish language textbook on digital methods and a forthcoming field guide to controversy mapping.

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