Why is Digital Anthropology important?

Digital Anthropology is the study of the interactions between humans through technology. Digital Anthropology is important because our society needs to understand how people’s digital life influences who they are. It’s important for us to understand how humans behave anonymously or to random strangers. The online community has its own groups and sub communities. Each community reacts in different ways and has different behaviors. It’s important to understand why those people act the way they do. If you study the principles that make an online community, you can see what variables impact the community. For example, a shooter game involves more swearing and racism than a singleplayer sandbox game. Why is this so? Digital Anthropology aims at understanding this and much more!