Devin Proctor

"Human* Being: On Otherkin Identity and Digital Community" is an ethnographic exploration of the Otherkin—a technologically mediated community whose members identify as other-than-human

"The Spectrum of Virtuality" by Devin Proctor draws on years of digital ethnographic research to examine how internet spaces shape identity, social relationships, and understandings of what it means to be human.

The Elon anthropologist's edited volume introduces methods guidelines and provides case studies for the practice of digital ethnographic study in the social sciences.

Proctor is a cultural anthropologist who studies how identities are formed in digital environments, with a particular emphasis on the processes of radicalization into far-right extremist movements.

Proctor is a cultural anthropologist whose research concerns identity construction in online spaces, particularly focusing on radicalization into far-right extremist groups.

Five students were inducted into The Iota North Carolina Chapter of the Lambda Alpha National Anthropology Honor Society.

Nine students were inducted into The Iota North Carolina Chapter of the Lambda Alpha National Anthropology Honor Society and the Alpha Kappa Delta National Sociology Honor Society during a ceremony and dinner held at Johnston Hall on April 20.

The Program for Ethnographic Research and Community Studies (PERCS) awarded Hannah Boone '22 and Emily Wilbourne '22 for their outstanding ethnographic research in a ceremony on April 21.

The online ethnography mini-grants support student projects that used contemporary technologies of connectedness to examine communities and cultures.